CGI::Application::Framework

Fully featured MVC Web development platform

CGI::Application::Framework

Hack-A-Thon #1 (Oct 29, 2005)

The first Hack-A-Thon is complete. The team of intrepid hackers can be seen here

Download

CAF is available on CPAN. The latest Changelog is here

A preliminary 0.27 release is here.

Documentation

• CGI-Application-Framework (html)
• README

Mailing List

• Subscription Info
• Archives (Gmane)
• Archives (mail-archive)

YAPC Talk

There was a talk on CAF at YAPC::NA 2005 in Toronto. The slides are available here

Features

• MVC Development with CGI::Application
• A recommended layout for modules, templates, config files etc.
• Choice of templating system (via CGI::Application::Plugin::AnyTemplate)
  • HTML::Template
  • HTML::Template::Expr
  • Template::Toolkit
  • Petal
• Form Validatation and Sticky Forms
  (via CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM)
• Easy (optional) Class::DBI integration
• Session Management
  (Apache::SessionX)
• Authentication
• Login Managment
  • login form
  • relogin after session timeout
  • form state is saved after relogin
• Nested page components (Headers, Footers, Navbars)
• Powerful configuration system
  (via CGI::Application::Plugin::Config::Context)
• Link Integrity system
• Logging
  (via CGI::Application::Plugin::Log::Dispatch)