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NAME

App::ZofCMS::Plugin::Base - base class for App::ZofCMS plugins

SYNOPSIS

    package App::ZofCMS::Plugin::Example;

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use base 'App::ZofCMS::Plugin::Base';

    sub _key { 'plug_example' }
    sub _defaults { qw/foo bar baz beer/ }
    sub _do {
        my ( $self, $conf, $template, $query, $config ) = @_;
    }

DESCRIPTION

The module is a base class for App::ZofCMS plugins. I'll safely assume that you've already read the docs for App::ZofCMS, App::ZofCMS::Config and App::ZofCMS::Template

The base class (currently) is only for plugins who take their "config" as a single first-level key in either Main Config File or ZofCMS Template. That key's value must be a hashref.

SUBS TO OVERRIDE

_key

    sub _key { 'plug_example' }

The _key needs to return a scalar contain the name of first level key in ZofCMS template or Main Config file. Study the source code of this module to find out what it's used for if it's still unclear.

_defaults

    sub _defaults { qw/foo bar baz beer/ }

The _defaults sub needs to return a list of default arguments in a key/value pairs. By default it returns an empty list.

_do

    sub _do {
        my ( $self, $conf, $template, $query, $config ) = @_;
    }

The _do sub is where you'd do all of your processing. The @_ will contain $self, $conf, $template, $query and $config (in that order) where $self is your plugin's object, $conf is the plugin's configuration hashref (what the user would specify in ZofCMS Template or Main Config File, the key of which is returned by _key() sub), the $template is the hashref of ZofCMS template that is being processed, the $query is a query parameters hashref where keys are names of the params and values are their values. Finally, the $config is App::ZofCMS::Config object.

MOAR!

Feel free to email me the requests for extra functionality for this base class.

AUTHOR

'Zoffix, <'zoffix at cpan.org'> (http://zoffix.com/, http://haslayout.net/, http://zofdesign.com/)

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-app-zofcms-plugin-base at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=App-ZofCMS-Plugin-Base. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc App::ZofCMS::Plugin::Base

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 'Zoffix, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.