Catalyst is just another MVC framework. This page contains contents non-Catalyst, e.g. CSS, AJAX, etc.

Profiling

Catalyst::Stats

Get alternating rows in a table with TT2 and CSS

http://www.robertprice.co.uk/robblog/archive/2004/9/Alternating_Table_Rows_With_Template_Toolkit_And_CSS.shtml

Use filters in TT2

define filters in MyApp::View::TT.pm 

__PACKAGE__->config({
    ...
    FILTERS => {
                'floatprint' => [sub {sprintf "%6.3f", @_;}],
               }
});

use it in the template, 

[% temp.temp00 FILTER floatprint %]

Debug

$c->log->info("Starting the foreach loop here");
$c->log->debug("Value of $id is: ".$id);

Catalyst setup on Windows

http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install

need nmake and a C compiler (from such as Dev-C++)

Catalyst test

run MyApp_server.pl with "-r" when testing for auto-restart when file is modified

mod_perl2 and Catalyst on Windows

mod_perl2 can be installed using ppm, this can be easily found.

to setup mod_perl work with Catalyst, some example can be found here. don't forget to get Catalyst::Engine::Apache.

part of the httpd.conf file: 

PerlSwitches -IG:\temp\X\lib
LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

PerlModule X
<Location />
    SetHandler          modperl
    PerlResponseHandler X
</Location>

suppose G:\X\lib\X.pm being the Catalyst application.

Tutorials

  1. Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial
  2. Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD
  3. http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/YetAnotherCatalystIntro
  4. http://www.pjls.co.uk/tutorials/catalyst.html

create m/v/c

script/myapp_create.pl controller Books
script/myapp_create.pl model MyAppDB DBIC::Schema MyAppDB dbi:SQLite:myapp.db '' '' '{ AutoCommit => 1 }'
script\myapp_create.pl view MyChartStrip Chart::Strip

use regular expressions in the controller

sub monRun : LocalRegex('^mon(\d+)') {
    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
    my $RUN = $c->req->captures->[0];
    #$c->response->body("captured $RUN");
}

css reference

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2

generate schema automatically

perl -MDBIx::Class::Schema::Loader=make_schema_at,dump_to_dir:./lib \
-e 'make_schema_at("SpinDBSchema", { debug => 1 }, [ "dbi:Pg:dbname=spin_scratch"])'

TTSite

ttsite.css and tt2 files for the views are at root/src, layout, header, footer, etc are found at root/lib/site/, sitewide data can be defined in are in root/lib/config/main

memcached

http://www.danga.com/memcached/

HTML Reference

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/

JS and DOM reference for gecko

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Gecko_DOM_Reference

AJAX in view

http://search.cpan.org/~esskar/HTML-Prototype-1.48/lib/HTML/Prototype.pm

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

some simple examples: http://24ways.org/2005/edit-in-place-with-ajax

benchmarking

ab -n 100 -c 10 localhost/page?param=value

host

right now I'm using Catalyst on Linux with Postgres/Apache2/mod_perl

lighttpd and fastcgi seems to be quite common too:

http://www.dev411.com/wiki/Installing_lighttpd_and_FastCGI_for_Catalyst

javascript, etc

http://extjs.com/deploy/ext/docs/

very nice tutorial on extjs data grid:

http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2007/9

Inspect DOM, debugging CSS/JS/HTML, monitor network, etc:

http://www.getfirebug.com/

ExtJS

http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/

Editor grid example

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18435

Reference

http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/info.html

http://struts.apache.org/primer.html