-A large number of web programming tasks follow the same sort of pattern:
-we have some data in a datasource, typically a relational database. We
-have a bunch of templates provided by web designers. We have a number of
-things we want to be able to do with the database - create, add, edit,
-delete records, view records, run searches, and so on. We have a web
-server which provides input from the user about what to do. Something in
-the middle takes the input, grabs the relevant rows from the database,
-performs the action, constructs a page, and spits it out.
-
-This module aims to be the most generic and extensible "something in the
-middle".
-
-An example would help explain this best. You need to add a product
-catalogue to a company's web site. Users need to list the products in
-various categories, view a page on each product with its photo and
-pricing information and so on, and there needs to be a back-end where
-sales staff can add new lines, change prices, and delete out of date
-records. So, you set up the database, provide some default templates
-for the designers to customize, and then write an Apache handler like
-this:
-
- package ProductDatabase;
- use base 'Apache::MVC';
- __PACKAGE__->set_database("dbi:mysql:products");
- BeerDB->config->{uri_base} = "http://your.site/catalogue/";
- ProductDatabase::Product->has_a("category" => ProductDatabase::Category);
- # ...
-
- sub authenticate {
- my ($self, $request) = @_;
- return OK if $request->{ar}->get_remote_host() eq "sales.yourcorp.com";
- return OK if $request->{action} =~ /^(view|list)$/;
- return DECLINED;
- }
- 1;
+Maypole is a Perl web application framework to Java's struts. It is
+essentially completely abstracted, and so doesn't know anything about
+how to talk to the outside world. C<Apache::MVC> is a mod_perl based
+subclass of Maypole.
+
+To use it, you need to create a package which represents your entire
+application. In our example above, this is the C<BeerDB> package.
+
+This needs to first inherit from C<Apache::MVC>, and then call setup.
+This will give your package an Apache-compatible C<handler> subroutine,
+and then pass any parameters onto the C<setup_database> method of the
+model class. The default model class for Maypole uses L<Class::DBI> to
+map a database to classes, but this can be changed by messing with the
+configuration. (B<Before> calling setup.)
+
+Next, you should configure your application through the C<config>
+method. Configuration parameters at present are:
+
+=over
+
+=item uri_base
+
+You B<must> specify this; it is the base URI of the application, which
+will be used to construct links.
+
+=item display_tables
+
+If you do not want all of the tables in the database to be accessible,
+then set this to a list of only the ones you want to display
+
+=item rows_per_page
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