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Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework

By : Antano Solar John
Book Image

Catalyst 5.8: the Perl MVC Framework

By: Antano Solar John

Overview of this book

<p>Many web applications are implemented in a way that makes developing them difficult and repetitive. Catalyst is an open source Perl-based Model-View-Controller framework that aims to solve this problem by reorganizing your web application to design and implement it in a natural, maintainable, and testable manner, making web development fun, fast, and rewarding.<br /><br />This book teaches you how to use Catalyst to weave the various components involved in a web application, using methods and tools you personally prefer along with recommendations and details on the most popularly used objects like the DBIX ORM, TT2 Template, and Moose.<br /><br />This book will take you from how the MVC pattern simplifies creating quality applications to how Catalyst allows you to tap this power instantly. It explains advanced design patterns and concludes with the improvements that Moose brings to all this. It also incorporates valuable suggestions and feedback received from the community members and our customers. By the end of the book, you will be able to build clean, scalable, and extendable web applications. This book embodies Catalyst's philosophies of Do It Yourself and Don't Repeat Yourself.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Catalyst 5.8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
7
Hot Web Topics
Index

Finishing up


The final feature we need to add to our address book is an address editing Controller, with methods for adding, editing, and deleting addresses. Even though the address data is more complicated than the simple firstname/lastname records that we were working with before, the code is almost exactly the same.

Let's start by creating a template for the address editing form in root/src/address/edit.tt2:

[% META title = "Address" %]
<p>Here's some text explaining the form below. Only the "location" field is required, etc., etc.</p>
[%FormBuilder.render%]

This looks just like the name editing form. In a real application, you will want to add some text explaining the form so that your users know what constraints are placed on the data. As this is just another template, you can add as much text before or after the form as you think appropriate. You can also use variables from the stash and so on.

Next, we want to add a definition of the form in root/forms/address/edit.fb. This...