CatalystX::Usul::Controller::Entrance - Common controller methods

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   package MyApp::Controller::Entrance;

   use base qw(CatalystX::Usul::Controller::Entrance);

Provides controller methods that are common to multiple applications. The methods include welcome pages, authentication, sitemap and documentation

Activates newly created accounts

Intermediate controller maps to the authentication path part. Three other controllers chain to this one so as to appear in the right place in the navigation menu

Identify yourself to the system. You will need a login id and password to prove your identity to the system

Authenticate the user. If another controller was wanted and the user was forced to authenticate first, redirect the session to the originally requested controller. This was stored in a cookie by the auto method prior to redirecting to the authentication controller which forwarded to here

A midpoint in the URI that does nothing except act as a placeholder for the namespace which is entrance

Exposes the method of the same name in the parent class which is responsible for stuffing the stash with all of the non endpoint specific data

Change your password. Passwords will be checked for conformance with local rules

This private method invokes the data model to update a user password

Action to enable Ajax field checking. Calls method of same name in parent class

A midpoint in the URI. A number of other actions are chained off this one. It sets up the navigation menu and form keys

Another midpoint, this one is used by documentation endpoints

Links to the HTML documentation index generated from POD. It can be regenerated with the command

   bin/munchies_cli -n -c pod2html

Capture the required language. The actual work is done in the begin method

Displays the POD for the selected module

Displays a table of modules used by the application and their version numbers. It has clickable fields that display POD for the module and it's source code

Intermediate subroutine maps to the reception path part. Both receptionView and the tutorial chain to this controller

Display the splash page for the application

Redirects client to this controllers default page

Midpoint that stashes a copy of the register model for use by the site registration actions

User self registration page

Private method calls the data model to create a new user account

Displays links to all the rooms on this site

Guides you through the elements common to all rooms on this site

Debug can be turned on/off from the tools menu

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CatalystX::Usul::Controller

None known

There are no known bugs in this module. Please report problems to the address below. Patches are welcome

Peter Flanigan, <Support at RoxSoft.co.uk>

Copyright (c) 2008 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