Name CatalystX::Usul - A base class for Catalyst MVC components Version This document describes CatalystX::Usul version v0.13.$Rev: 1 $ Synopsis package MyApp::Controller; use Moose; BEGIN { extends qw(CatalystX::Usul::Controller) } package MyApp::Model; use Moose; extends qw(CatalystX::Usul::Model); Description These modules provide a set of extension base classes for a Catalyst web application. Features include: Targeted at intranet applications The identity model supports multiple backend authentication stores including the underlying operating system accounts Thin controllers Most controllers make a single call to the model and so comprise of only a few lines of code. The interface model stashes data used by the view to render the page No further view programing required A single template toolkit instance is used to render all pages as either HTML or XHTML. The template forms one component of the "skin", the other components are: a Javascript file containing the use cases for the Javascript libraries, a primary CSS file with support for alternative CSS files, and a set of image files Designers can create new skins with different layout, presentation and behaviour for the whole application. They can do this for the example application, Munchies, whilst the programmers write the "real" application in parallel with the designers work Flexible development methodology These base classes are used by an example application, Munchies, which can be deployed to staging and production servers at the beginning of the project. Setting up the example application allows issues regarding the software technology to be resolved whilst the "real" application is being written. The example application can be deleted leaving these base classes for the "real" application to use Subroutines/Methods This package is a placeholder for POD and contains no methods or functions Configuration and Environment None Diagnostics None Dependencies Class::Usul To make the Captchas work GD::SecurityImage needs to be installed which has a documented dependency on "libgd" which should be installed first Incompatibilities There are no known incompatibilities in this module Bugs and Limitations There are no known bugs in this module. Please report problems to the address below. Patches are welcome Acknowledgements Larry Wall - For the Perl programming language Author Peter Flanigan, "" License and Copyright Copyright (c) 2013 Peter Flanigan. All rights reserved This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE