update README with new mailing list info, fix typo in Maypole.pm

[maypole.git] / lib / Maypole.pm

diff --git a/lib/Maypole.pm b/lib/Maypole.pm
index e71c31f27f155b3fe9f3a41d178345fae071d069..cb5e50ea04f38211eabfdf5787f4053b24a6767f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Maypole.pm
+++ b/lib/Maypole.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use Maypole::Config;
 use Maypole::Constants;
 use Maypole::Headers;
 
-our $VERSION = '2.05';
+our $VERSION = '2.09';
 
 __PACKAGE__->mk_classdata($_) for qw( config init_done view_object );
 __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors(
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ sub exception { return ERROR }
 sub parse_path {
     my $self = shift;
     $self->{path} ||= "frontpage";
-    my @pi = split /\//, $self->{path};
-    shift @pi while @pi and !$pi[0];
+    my @pi = $self->{path} =~ m{([^/]+)/?}g;
     $self->{table}  = shift @pi;
     $self->{action} = shift @pi;
     $self->{action} ||= "index";
@@ -236,7 +235,7 @@ See L<Maypole::Application>.
 This documents the Maypole request object. See the L<Maypole::Manual>, for a
 detailed guide to using Maypole.
 
-Maypole is a Perl web application framework to Java's struts. It is 
+Maypole is a Perl web application framework similar to Java's struts. It is 
 essentially completely abstracted, and so doesn't know anything about
 how to talk to the outside world.
 
@@ -333,12 +332,15 @@ You should only need to define this method if you are writing a new
 Maypole
 backend.
 
+=head3 param
+
+An accessor for request parameters. It behaves similarly to CGI::param() for
+accessing CGI parameters.
+
 =head3 params
 
-Returns a hash of request parameters. The source of the parameters may
-vary
-depending on the Maypole backend, but they are usually populated from
-request
+Returns a hash of request parameters. The source of the parameters may vary
+depending on the Maypole backend, but they are usually populated from request
 query string and POST data.
 
 B<Note:> Where muliple values of a parameter were supplied, the
@@ -489,11 +491,13 @@ Maypole is currently maintained by Simon Flack C<simonflk#cpan.org>
 
 Simon Cozens, C<simon#cpan.org>
 
+Sebastian Riedel, C<sri#oook.de> maintained Maypole from 1.99_01 to 2.04
+
 =head1 THANKS TO
 
-Danijel Milicevic, Dave Slack, Jesse Sheidlower, Jody Belka, Marcus Ramberg,
-Mickael Joanne, Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack, Steve Simms, Veljko Vidovic
-and all the others who've helped.
+Sebastian Riedel, Danijel Milicevic, Dave Slack, Jesse Sheidlower, Jody Belka,
+Marcus Ramberg, Mickael Joanne, Randal Schwartz, Simon Flack, Steve Simms,
+Veljko Vidovic and all the others who've helped.
 
 =head1 LICENSE