CGI-Application-Plugin-Routes
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INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
SYNOPSIS
CGI::Application::Plugin::Routes tries to bring to perl some of the goodies of Rails routes by allowing the creationg of a routes table that is parsed at the prerun stage again the CGI's path_info data. The result of the process (if there's any match at the end of the process) is added to CGI's query method from CGI::Application and available to all the runmodes via the CGI::Application::query::param method.
By doing this, the plugin provides a uniform way to access GET and POST parameters when using clean url's with the query->param() method.
USAGE
Perhaps a little code snippet.
In TestApp.om
package TestApp;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base qw/CGI::Application/;
use CGI::Application::Plugin::Routes;
sub setup {
my $self = shift;
$self->routes_root('/thismod');#optional, will be used to prepend every route defines in $self->routes.
$self->routes([
'' => 'home' ,
'/view/:name/:id/:email' => 'view',
]);
$self->start_mode('show');
$self->tmpl_path('templates/');
}
sub view {
my $self = shift;
my $q = $self->query();
my $name = $q->param('name');
my $id = $q->param('id');
my $email = $q->param('email');
my $debug = $self->routes_dbg; #dumps all the C::A::P::Routes info
return $self->dump_html();
}
1;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Michael Peter's CGI::Application::Dispatch module that can be found here:
http://search.cpan.org/~wonko/CGI-Application-Dispatch
I borrowed from him most of the routine that parses the url.
Mark Stosberg http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/ provided great feedback and fixed parts of the code making it more clean and efficient.
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc CGI::Application::Plugin::Routes
You can also look for information at:
RT, CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CGI-Application-Plugin-Routes
AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Routes
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/CGI-Application-Plugin-Routes
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Routes
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2008 Julián Porta
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.