NAME

Handel - Simple commerce framework with AxKit/TT2 support

VERSION

$Id: Handel.pm 355 2005-03-06 21:44:26Z claco $

DESCRIPTION

Handel is a quick and not-so-dirty ecommerce framework with AxKit taglib support and TT2 (template Toolkit) support. It was started for the conversion of an IIS/ASP based commerce site to Apache/ModPerl, but I decided that is might be useful to others so here it is on CPAN.

For the curious, Handel is German for commerce.

REQUIREMENTS

Prerequisites

The following modules are required for Handel to work properly. Older versions may work fine. For now, these are the versions I have installed and verified to work correctly.

Class::DBI 0.96+

DBI version 1.36+

Error 0.14+

Locale::Maketext 1.06+

UUID*/GUID

At least one of the following modules are required to create uuids: UUID 0.02, Win32::Guidgen 0.04, Win32API::GUID 0.02, or Data::UUID 0.10.

Axit 1.6.2+

AxKit is only required if you plan on using Handel within XSP using the supplied taglibs.

Optional Modules

The following modules are required for Handel to run, although some features may be unavailable without the:

Locale::Currency::Format

When present, this module allows all prices to be formatted to specific currency codes and formats.

The following modules are only required for the test suite:

Test::More 0.48+

The Test::More included with perl 5.8.4 and Test::More <= 0.48 have issues with ithreads that usually cause crashes in Class::DBI tests.

Pod::Coverage 0.14+

The pod coverage tests may fail complaining about missing pod for methods if Pod::Coverage < 0.14 is installed. This is due to certain syntax variations of the pod with escaped gt/lt. I may just alter the pod and bump this version down if there is enough feedback to do so.

Test::Pod 1.00+

Test::Pod 1.00 added the all_pod_files_ok() method which makes my life easier. :-)

Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04+

Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 was made taint safe, and we run the tests with -wT like good girls and boys.

SEE ALSO

Handel::Cart

AUTHOR

Christopher H. Laco
CPAN ID: CLACO
cpan@chrislaco.com
http://today.icantfocus.com/blog/