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Catalyst-4.00
/ Catalyst

NAME

Catalyst - The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework

SYNOPSIS

# use the helper to start a new application
catalyst MyApp
cd MyApp

# add models, views, controllers
bin/create model Something
bin/create view Stuff
bin/create controller Yada

# built in testserver
bin/server

# command line interface
bin/test /yada


See also L<Catalyst::Manual::Intro>


use Catalyst;

use Catalyst qw/My::Module My::OtherModule/;

use Catalyst '-Debug';

use Catalyst qw/-Debug -Engine=CGI/;

__PACKAGE__->action( '!default' => sub { $_[1]->res->output('Hello') } );

__PACKAGE__->action(
    'index.html' => sub {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->res->output('Hello');
        $c->forward('_foo');
    }
);

__PACKAGE__->action(
    '/^product[_]*(\d*).html$/' => sub {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->stash->{template} = 'product.tt';
        $c->stash->{product} = $c->req->snippets->[0];
    }
);

DESCRIPTION

Catalyst is based upon Maypole, which you should consider for smaller projects.

The key concept of Catalyst is DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

See Catalyst::Manual for more documentation.

Omit the Catalyst::Plugin:: prefix from plugins. So Catalyst::Plugin::My::Module becomes My::Module.

use Catalyst 'My::Module';

You can also set special flags like -Debug and -Engine.

use Catalyst qw/-Debug My::Module/;

The position of plugins and flags in the chain is important, because they are loaded in the same order they appear.

-Debug

use Catalyst '-Debug';

is equivalent to

use Catalyst;
sub debug { 1 }

-Engine

Force Catalyst to use a specific engine. Omit the Catalyst::Engine:: prefix.

use Catalyst '-Engine=CGI';

METHODS

debug

Overload to enable debug messages.

config

Returns a hashref containing your applications settings.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst::Manual, Catalyst::Test, Catalyst::Request, Catalyst::Response, Catalyst::Engine

AUTHOR

Sebastian Riedel, sri@oook.de

THANK YOU

Danijel Milicevic, David Naughton, Gary Ashton Jones, Jesse Sheidlower, Marcus Ramberg and all the others who've helped.

LICENSE

This library is free software . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.