NAME
Catalyst::Manual::Plugins - Catalyst Plugins (and Components)
DESCRIPTION
This section lists the some of the plugins and components that are available to extend the runtime functionality of Catalyst. Most plugins are not distributed with Catalyst but should be available from CPAN. They typically require additional modules from CPAN.
This list is almost certainly outdated by the time you read this, so be sure to check the Catalyst::Plugin namespace for additional plugins.
PLUGINS
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI is a CDBI (Class::DBI) authentication plugin. Note that it requires a session plugin.
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::LDAP
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::LDAP is a plugin allowing you to authenticate your web users using an LDAP server.
Catalyst::Plugin::Browser
Catalyst::Plugin::Browser extends Catalyst::Request by adding the capability of browser detection. It returns an instance of HTTP::BrowserDetect, which lets you get information from the client's user agent.
Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FastMmap, FileCache, and Memcached
Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FastMmap, Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::FileCache, and Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Memcached all provide a cache method enabling easy access to a shared cache.
Catalyst::Plugin::Compress::Zlib
Catalyst::Plugin::Compress::Zlib supplies Zlib compression for Catalyst.
Catalyst::Plugin::Compress::Bzip2
Catalyst::Plugin::Compress::Bzip2 compresses a response using bzip compression.
Catalyst::Plugin::DefaultEnd
Catalyst::Plugin::DefaultEnd creates a sane, standard end method for your application.
Catalyst::Plugin::Email
Catalyst::Plugin::Email sends email with Catalyst and Email::Send and Email::MIME::Creator.
Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm
Catalyst::Plugin::FillInForm is plugin for Catalyst based on HTML::FillInForm, which describes itself as a module to automatically insert data from a previous HTML form into the HTML input, textarea, radio buttons, checkboxes, and select tags. HTML::FillInForm is a subclass of HTML::Parser and uses it to parse the HTML and insert the values into the form tags.
Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator
Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator is a form validator plugin that uses Data::FormValidator to validate and set up form data from your request parameters. It's a quite thin wrapper around that module, so most of the relevant information can be found there.
Catalyst::Plugin::Geography
Catalyst::Plugin::Geography allows you to retrieve various kinds of geographical information. You can retrieve the country or code from the current user, from a given IP address, or from a given hostname.
Catalyst::Plugin::I18N
Catalyst::Plugin::I18N is an internationalization plugin for Catalyst. Supports mo/po files and Maketext classes under your application's I18N namespace.
Catalyst::Plugin::Observe
Catalyst::Plugin::Observe provides the ability to register AOP-like callbacks to specific Engine events. Subclasses Class::Publisher.
Catalyst::Plugin::OrderedParams
Catalyst::Plugin::OrderedParams adjusts the way that parameters operate, causing them to appear in the same order they were submitted by the browser. This can be useful for creating things such as email forms.
Catalyst::Plugin::PageCache
Catalyst::Plugin::PageCache helps improve the performance of slow or frequently accessed pages by caching the entire output of your page. Subsequent requests to the page will receive the page very quickly from cache.
Catalyst::Plugin::Pluggable
Catalyst::Plugin::Pluggable is a plugin for pluggable Catalyst applications.
Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype
Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype is a plugin for the Prototype JavaScript library. This Plugin allows you to easily implement AJAX functionality without actually knowing Javascript.
Catalyst::Plugin::RequireSSL
Use Catalyst::Plugin::RequireSSL if you would like to force visitors to access certain pages using only SSL mode. An attempt to access the page in non-SSL mode will receive a redirect into SSL mode. Useful for login pages, shopping carts, user registration forms, and other sensitive data.
Catalyst::Plugin::Session
The Catalyst::Plugin::Session series of modules provide an easy way to include session handling in an application. You can choose from several different backend storage methods and combine that with your choice of client-side storage methods.
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::FastMmap
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::FastMmap is a session plugin for Catalyst based on Cache::FastMMap, which uses an mmap'ed file to act as a shared memory interprocess cache. This is an older session plugin; you may wish to look at Catalyst::Plugin::Session instead.
Catalyst::Plugin::SRU
Catalyst::Plugin::SRU allows your controller class to dispatch SRU actions (explain, scan, and searchRetrieve) from its own class.
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple serves static files in your application without requiring a single line of code. This plugin is now included in the core Catalyst distribution.
Catalyst::Plugin::Static
Catalyst::Plugin::Static is a plugin to serve static files from $c->config->{root}. Intended chiefly for development purposes.
Catalyst::Plugin::SubRequest
Catalyst::Plugin::SubRequest is a plugin to allow subrequests to actions to be made within Catalyst. Nice for portal software and such.
Catalyst::Plugin::SuperForm
Catalyst::Plugin::SuperForm is an interface to the HTML::SuperForm module, enabling easy HTML form creation.
Catalyst::Plugin::Textile
Catalyst::Plugin::Textile is a persistent Textile processor for Catalyst that uses Text::Textile, a Perl-based implementation of Dean Allen's Textile syntax. Textile is shorthand for doing common formatting tasks (see http://textism.com).
Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode
Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode provides a Unicode-aware Catalyst. On request, it decodes all params from UTF-8 octets into a sequence of logical characters. On response, it encodes the body into UTF-8 octets.
Catalyst::Plugin::XMLRPC
Catalyst::Plugin::XMLRPC plugin allows your Controller class to dispatch XMLRPC methods from its own class.
COMPONENT MODULES
Catalyst::Model::CDBI
Catalyst::Model::CDBI is the Class::DBI (CDBI) module class. It is built on top of Class::DBI::Loader, which automates the definition of Class::DBI sub-classes by scanning the underlying table schemas, setting up columns and primary keys.
Catalyst::Model::CDBI::Plain
Catalyst::Model::CDBI::Plain is a neutral interface to the Class::DBI module, which does not attempt to automate table setup. It allows the user to manually set up Class::DBI classes, either by doing so within the Catalyst model classes themselves, or by inheriting from existing Class::DBI classes.
Catalyst::Model::DBIC
Catalyst::Model::DBIC is a DBIx::Class model class built on top of DBIx::Class::Loader.
Catalyst::Model::Plucene
Catalyst::Model::Plucene is a model class for the Plucene search engine.
Catalyst::Model::Xapian
Catalyst::Model::Xapian is a model class for the Xapian search engine.
Catalyst::View::HTML::Template
Catalyst::View::HTML::Template is a View component for displaying your stash with HTML::Template.
Catalyst::View::Mason
Catalyst::View::Mason is a View component for displaying your stash with HTML::Mason.
Catalyst::View::PSP
Catalyst::View::PSP is a View component for displaying your stash using PSP, a Perl extension implementing a JSP-like templating system; see Text::PSP.
Catalyst::View::Petal
Catalyst::View::Petal is a View component for displaying your stash using Petal, the Perl Template Attribute Language, an XML-based templating system; see Petal.
Catalyst::View::TT
Catalyst::View::TT is a Template Toolkit view. See Template::Manual.
AUTHORS
Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk>
Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org>
Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.