Catalyst

This is meant to be a Catalyst cookbook (the original content is taken from the Catalyst Advent Calendar). Information might be outdated as the calendar content is mostly based on version 5.61.

If you have questions, a request or want to help feel free to do so on the Catalyst mailing list or on IRC (server: irc.perl.org, channel : #catalyst, nick: kixx or kixxx)

coding practices

help on writing code

• DRY - do not, I repeat, do not ever repeat yourself
• testing - test before or after you code, but test nonetheless

models - get your data

• DBIC - use an advanced ORM - DBIx::Class as your database interface

views - present your pages

• TT - take advantage of the Template Toolkit for your output

controllers - decide what happens

• action types - how does catalyst decide which actions are executed?

features

• YAML - using yet another markup language for your config
• caching - speed up your app with caches
• subrequests - generate your own requests
• auth - an overview of authentication and authorization
• session - store info in sessions
• rss - provide rss feeds
• xmlrpc - implement remote procedure calls over http
• static - serving static files (like images and css)
• authorization - how to implement authorization

deployment

how to run your Catalyst app

• PAR - deploying catalyst apps with PAR
• mod_perl - running under mod_perl
• shared hosting - deployment on a shared server
• FastCGI - using FastCGI to run your code

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