Being a fan of HTML::Mason (http://www.masonhq.com) for web development, I've put together a contrib based on my own modifications to get HTML::Mason working on 5.6. It should work on 6.0 as well, but I haven't had time to test it there yet. HTML::Mason is a solution for embedding Perl in HTML pages that goes far beyond traditional approaches like Embperl, HTML::Template and Text::Template (which we know and love). While many use PHP for such solutions, I personally find PHP to be poorly designed, am more comfortable in Perl, and find the CPAN to be indispensible. I have not yet written a panel for it, so the interface is all command-line. Once installed, individual ibays can be Mason-enabled, if they correspond to virtual hosts. The exception is the primary ibay. In the future I plan to fix this limitation to permit any ibay to be Mason-enabled, with or without a virtual host. The property to enable mason is called 'Mason', with global variables made available via 'MasonGlobals'.
Example: Mason-enable the primary ibay.
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop primary Mason enabled
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update
Example: Mason-enable a virtually-hosted ibay, with $dbh and $schema globals.
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop <ibay> Mason enabled
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop <ibay> MasonGlobals '$dbh,$schema'
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update
The default setup is to tell apache to pass any .html files to
Mason, and to hide .mas and /handler/ files. At some point I will also
make this configurable, as some prefer .mhtml, and even .css for dynamic
stylesheets.
This contrib currently uses two custom templates. There's probably a
better way, stay tuned. In the meantime, if you have 20LoadModule80
and/or 30AddModule60 custom templates for apache, move them before
installing this contrib, and then you can merge them. mod_perl must be
enabled for this contrib.
The rpms you'll need are:
perl-AppConfig-1.52-1.i386.rpm
perl-Class-Container-0.09-1.i386.rpm
perl-Class-Data-Inheritable-0.02-1.i386.rpm
perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.03-1.i386.rpm
perl-Exception-Class-1.11-1.i386.rpm
perl-HTML-Mason-1.18-1.i386.rpm
perl-libapreq-1.1-1.i386.rpm
perl-Params-Validate-0.56-1.i386.rpm
perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.11-1.i386.rpm
perl-Template-Toolkit-2.08-1.i386.rpm
perl-TimeDate-1.14-1.i386.rpm
e-smith-mason-1.0.0-01.noarch.rpm
These are all available in my contrib area on any e-smith.org
download mirror. For example...
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/MichaelSoulier/
Warning: I have not heavily tested this, but it is currently running
two Mason-enabled virtual hosts on my 5.6 server. I'll test it on 6.0
soon.
Please report any problems directly to me, as this is _not_ a
supported work of Mitel Networks.
More information on HTML::Mason:
http://www.masonhq.com/
http://www.masonbook.com/
Cheers,
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 613-592-2122 x2522
SME Solutions, Mitel Networks Corporation
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
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