Plugins for CGI::Application

There are a number of modules on CPAN that have been designed to work as a plugin for CGI::Application. They usually export useful methods that you can use in your application module.

All CGI::App plugins on CPAN

• Ajax - see CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype plugin
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ActionDispatch – Catalyst-style URL-to-runmode-mapping.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::AnyTemplate – unified API to multiple templating systems (HTML::Template, Template::Toolkit, Petal)
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache – integration with Mod Perl Apache::* modules – Apache::Request, Apache::Cookie, etc.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::AutoRunmode – offers several ways to automatically register run modes
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication – offers several ways to authenticate users. Includes a default login screen.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Authorization – authorize users for specific tasks
• CGI::Application::Plugin::BREAD - offers database management (browsing, reading, editing, adding and deleting)
• CGI::Application::Plugin::CAPTCHA - for generating and validating simple captchas
• CGI::Application::Plugin::CaptureIO - A caching plugin.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::CHI - Integration with CHI caching framework
• CGI::Application::Plugin::CompressGzip – add automatic gzip encoding to text output (works under plain cgi and mod_perl!)
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAuto – easy config file management
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Config::Context – hierarchical, context-based

configuration

• CGI::Application::Plugin::Config::Simple – integration with Config::Simple
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ProtectCSRF – protection from Cross Site Request Forgery. See also ProtectCSRF discussion
• CGI::Application::Plugin::DebugScreen – provide helpful debugging context instead of an internal server error screen.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::DevPopup – Runtime cgiapp info in a popup window
• CGI::Application::Plugin::DBIProfiler - Provides graphical profiling of DBI queries. Currently unreleased.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH – easy DBI access
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Eparam – helps with language encoding of parameters, but currently lacks any documentation or tests.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ErrorPage – A simple error page shortcut
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Feedback – helps store and return bits of feedback to the user.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::FillInForm – HTML::FillInForm integration
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Forward – Keep the current run mode up to date when forwarding run modes
• CGI::Application::Plugin::HTDot – Integration with HTML::Template::Plugin::Dot
• CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype – Integration with HTML::Prototype
• CGI::Application::Plugin::HtmlTidy – adds html validation; optionally it can also make your output (x)html conformant
• CGI::Application::Plugin::I18N – Internationalization (I18N) and localization (l10n) functionality
• CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON – easily produce JSON output
• CGI::Application::Plugin::LinkIntegrity – adds helper methods to check if links have been tampered with.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::LogDispatch – Integration with Log::Dispatch
• CGI::Application::Plugin::MessageStack – a message passing system which can store messages in a session and integrate with templating systems.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Output::XSV – Simplifies generating XSV output in a run mode via Text::CSV_XS
• CGI::Application::Plugin::PageBuilder – tries to simplify building pages that require multiple templates. See the Any Template plugin for an alternate solution.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::RateLimit – limits runmode call rate per user. Good for limiting login attempts, contact form email submissions, etc.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Redirect – provides a shortcut for redirecting.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Routes - brings to Perl some of the goodies of Rails routes by creating a routes table that is parsed at the prerun stage against CGI path_info data
• CGI::Application::Plugin::RunmodeDeclare - declare runmodes with keywords (startmode, errormode, runmode), and optionally pull named parameters
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Session – adds CGI::Session support
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Stash – use Catalyst "stash" syntax as an alternative for param().
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Stream – adds file streaming support
• CGI::Application::Plugin::TemplateRunner – provides a runmode to automatically display HTML::Templates
• CGI::Application::Plugin::TT – adds Template Toolkit support
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM – helps validate run modes using Data::FormValidator
• CGI::Application::Plugin::ViewCode – view source and code of the running application.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::YAML – Easy YAML parsing.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::Nes – Use Nes templates, object, plugin, PHP, SH, PYTHON, ... in CGI::Application

Other Add-Ons

Some other modules are designed for use with CGI::Application, even if they do not call themselves a plugin:

• CGI::Application::Dispatch is used to dispatch a request to one or more CGI::Application based objects
• CGI::Application::Dispatch::BuildURI provides consistent URIs when dispatching to making links in templates more consistent.
• CGI::Application::Dispatch::Server provides a stand-alone HTTP server based on C::A::Dispatch...useful for offline development.
• CGI::Application::FastCGI – integration with Fast CGI
• CGI::Application::Generator – a solution for setting up a new CGI::Appication project based on your own templates. (Using Template Toolkit's ttree would be a more general solution.)
• CGI::Application::MailPage – adds functionality to easily mail a web page to a friend.
• CGI::Application::PhotoGallery – a simple photo gallery application
• CGI::Application::Search – integration with Swish-e search engine
• CGI::Application::Server – a simple web server for CGI::Application projects, making it easier to test and work offline without a full Apache install.
• CGI::Application::URIMapping - a dispatcher / permalink builder, implemented as a wrapper of CGI::Application::Dispatch.
• Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGIApp – Test CGI::App-based projects directly with Test::WWW::Mechanize, without a "real" web server.

Writing Plugins

The CGI::Application documentation has the primary reference for how to write a plugin. Here are some supplemental references.

• list discussion about how to handle internal plugins methods (link dead, 2011-12-08)

See also

• All CGI::App plugins on CPAN (which is always more up-to-date than this page)
• Plugins Wanted
• Other Useful Modules