Catalyst::Helper::View::TTSite - Helper for TT view which builds a skeleton web site

# use the helper to create the view module and templates

    $ script/myapp_create.pl view HTML TTSite

# add something like the following to your main application module

    sub message : Global {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->stash->{template} = 'message.tt2';
        $c->stash->{message}  ||= $c->req->param('message') || 'No message';
    }

    sub default : Private {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->stash->{template} = 'welcome.tt2';
    }

    sub end : Private { # Or use Catalyst::Action::RenderView
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
        $c->forward( $c->view('HTML') );
    }

This helper module creates a TT View module. It goes further than Catalyst::Helper::View::TT in that it additionally creates a simple set of templates to get you started with your web site presentation.

It creates the templates in root/ directory underneath your main project directory. In here two further subdirectories are created: root/src which contains the main page templates, and root/lib containing a library of other template components (header, footer, etc.) that the page templates use.

The view module that the helper creates is automatically configured to locate these templates.

To render a template the following process is applied:

The configuration template root/lib/config/main is rendered. This is controlled by the PRE_PROCESS configuration variable set in the controller generated by Catalyst::Helper::View::TTsite. Additionally, templates referenced by the PROCESS directive will then be rendered. By default the following additional templates are set: root/lib/config/col, which defines color names and RGB their RGB values and /root/lib/config/url, which defines site wide variables available to templates.

Next, the template defined by the WRAPPER config variable is called. The default wrapper template is located in root/lib/site/wrapper. The wrapper template passes files with .css/.js/.txt extensions through as text OR processes the templates defined after the WRAPPER directive: site/html and site/layout.

Based on the default value of the WRAPPER directive in root/lib/site/wrapper, the following templates are processed in order:

* root/src/your_template.tt2

* root/lib/site/footer

* root/lib/site/header

* root/lib/site/layout

* root/lib/site/html

Finally, the rendered content is returned to the bowser.

Generates the component class.

Generates the templates.

Catalyst, Catalyst::View::TT, Catalyst::Helper, Catalyst::Helper::View::TT

Andy Wardley <abw@cpan.org>

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.

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Catalyst TTSite View.

[% author %]

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