CAM::Template::Cache - Template files with database storage

LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc., <cpan@clotho.com>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

ABOUT CLOTHO

"CAM" stands for Clotho Advanced Media Inc. (www.clotho.com) which developed this module. Contact us at info@clotho.com.

INSTALLATION

Install via one of the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

or

perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install

DESCRIPTION

This module extends the CAM::Template search-and-replace API with support for caching the resulting filled text in a database. This relies on the exitence of a DBI-friendly database, but does have a pair of convenience functions to help with the creation and support of the cache table in that database.

This module is useful for creating dynamic documents that are resource-expensive but do not change too often, like the front page of a news site. It is also useful for a collection of dynamic documents that are easier to generate all at once than individually, like multi-page results of a complex search.

Much to my surprise, I did not find anything in CPAN that does quite what this module does, even after looking at Cache::Cache and DBIx::*.

This module most closely resembles some combination of HTML::Template with Cache::Cache via DBI.