NAME

Catalyst::Plugin::Activator::Dictionary : Provide a Catalyst context Activator::Dictionary lookup() function, and template lookup magic.

SYNOPSIS

  # in MyApp.pm
  use Catalyst qw/ Activator::Plugin /;

  # Later, in some Controller
  $c->lookup('dict_key');

DESCRIPTION

This Catalyst plugin provides the two features listed in the METHODS section.

METHODS

lookup

Provides a wrapper to Activator::Dictionary lookup function usable wherever you have access to the catalyst context object $c.

  # lookup in C<web> realm
  $c->lookup('dict_key');

  # lookup in alternate realm
  $c->lookup('dict_key', 'other_realm');

finalize

Does a regular expression replacement of %{} formatted keys into dictionary lookups from the web realm.

Example:

In /path/to/dictionary/en/web.dict:

  nice_para  This is a nice paragraph.

In a template:

  <p>%{nice_para}</p>

Resulting HTML:

<p>This is a nice paragraph.</p>

SEE ALSO

Activator::Dictionary, Catalyst, Catalyst::Manual::Plugins

AUTHOR

Karim Nassar

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Karim Nassar <karim.nassar@acm.org>

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License, or the Artistic License as specified in the Perl README file.