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Questions to tackle for Catalyst

User:Adamc00 provided this list of questions from geoffrey.ferrari@oriel.oxford.ac.uk who posted them on the Catalyst mailing list. Please strike through questions as they are answered

Catalyst is an advanced framework that builds on established CPAN modules. In other words, it's really difficult for beginners to understand.

• What is catalyst? (Please answer this one without using the words 'An elegant MVC framework')
• What are all these directories that get created when I run 'catalyst.pl MyApp'? What is their intended function? How much can I mess around with them
• So how do I serve some static webpages alongside my dynamic ones?
• Can I split my templates up into subdirectories under the 'root' directory, or will catalyst not be able to find them?
• OK, so I've seen an article that explains how to get one view up and running. Now I want another view. What do I do? Add it somehow to the first one or create a second one? Does a second view require a second view module in addition to MyApp::View::TT? What does MyApp::View::TT do anyway?
• When catalyst is run under mod_perl, does it start to control all the event handlers? Say, for instance, my current setup uses Apache::AuthCookie to control authentication. Can I combine AuthCookie with Catalyst, or must I use a Catalyst authentication plugin?
• Suppose I want to have a basic site running under http, and a more complete site running under https, using the same host name. Is it possible, and if so how?
• Ocassionally I'll want to submit data using forms. How do catalyst users handle this problem? Do they have two separate URLS, one to get the form and one to post to? Or do have a single URL, a single action, and check in their code whether it's a 'GET' or a 'POST' request.
• Without necessarily writing all the code, how would you set up a averagely complicated site? Which modules would you define? Where would you put them? Where you put your other stuff, like configuration files, templates, images, utility classes, and anything else you might require?

A Catalyst tutorial?

It occurs to me that many of these additional questions would be better answered in a beginning Catalyst tutorial rather than in a higher level article. What are your thoughts?

Jarich ^(talk) 14:45, 17 January 2006 (EST)