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Foorum::Manual::Tutorial1 - Tutorial 1: Catalyst Plugins used in Foorum

Config::YAML

Catalyst::Plugin::Config::YAML::XS

Why we are using Config::YAML::XS instead ConfigLoader is under a simple RULES, Fast is better.

Static::Simple

Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple

I think I need let Static::Simple be configurable later. because it's better let Apache handles static contents.

Authentication

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication

Authentication is a important part in Foorum. viacheslav.t suggests

Another thing that i am concerned about is a way how to plug-in your forum to an existing Cat application. For example i have my own user infrastructure and registration, banning, blocking system (some things are borrowed from your code ;-)...

I'm strongly agree with him. so we will rewrite this part later.

but for now. in foorum.yml

authentication:
  default_realm: 'members'
  password_hash_type: "SHA-1"
  realms:
    members:
      credential:
        class: 'Password'
        password_field: 'password'
        password_type: "hashed"
        password_hash_type: "SHA-1"
      store:
        class: 'FromSub::Hash'
        model_class: "UserAuth"

here we are using Credential::Password and a Store::FromSub::Hash.

I must admit that FromSub::Hash is not good enough. but it doesn't hit database every request for $c->user. Store::DBIC is nice yet our Model/User.pm sub get is returning a cached user hash. so we use FromSub::Hash.

Cache

Catalyst::Plugin::Cache

before we use Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Memcached, but that's not so flexiable. so we turn to use Catalyst::Plugin::Cache. the configuration in foorum.yml is:

cache:
  backends:
    default:
      class: 'Cache::FileCache'
      namespace: 'Foorum'
      default_expires_in: 600

meanwhile, we can use Memcached:

cache:
  backends:
    default:
      class: Cache::Memcached
      compress_threshold: 10_000
      debug: 0
      servers:
        - 127.0.0.1:11211

Session::DynamicExpiry

Catalyst::Plugin::Session::DynamicExpiry

for the "Remember Me?".

Session

Catalyst::Plugin::Session

that's pretty normal here. we use DBIC and Cookie. no URI since that's bad.

I18N

Catalyst::Plugin::I18N

check Foorum/I18N/cn.po and tw.po then u can write one for your own. that's easy!

FormValidator::Simple

Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator::Simple

we are going to HTML::FormFu.

Captcha

Catalyst::Plugin::Captcha

captcha:
  session_name: captcha_string
  new:
    width: 80
    height: 30
    lines: 1
    gd_font: giant
  create:
    - normal
    - rect
  particle:
    - 100
  out:
    force: jpeg

PageCache

Catalyst::Plugin::PageCache

it's configurable. u can disable by set

function_on:
  maintain: 0
  register: 1
  create_forum: 1
  scraper: 0
  page_cache: 0

when page_cache: 1, it will be enabled.