NAME

CGI::Maypole - CGI-based front-end to Maypole

SYNOPSIS

     package BeerDB;
     use Maypole::Application;

     ## example beer.cgi:

     #!/usr/bin/perl -w
     use strict;
     use BeerDB;
     BeerDB->run();

Now to access the beer database, type this URL into your browser: http://your.site/cgi-bin/beer.cgi/frontpage

NOTE: this Maypole frontend requires additional modules that won't be installed or included with Maypole. Please see below.

DESCRIPTION

This is a CGI platform driver for Maypole. Your application can inherit from CGI::Maypole directly, but it is recommended that you use Maypole::Application.

This module requires CGI::Simple which you will have to install yourself via CPAN or manually.

METHODS

run: Call this from your CGI script to start the Maypole application.

Implementation

This class overrides a set of methods in the base Maypole class to provide it's functionality. See Maypole for these:

get_request
parse_location
warn
parse_args
redirect_request
get_protocol
send_output: Generates output (using "collect_output") and prints it.
collect_output: Gathers headers and output together into a string and returns it.
Splitting this code out of "send_output" supports Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend.
get_template_root

DEPENDANCIES

CGI::Simple

AUTHORS

Dave Ranney "dave@sialia.com"

Simon Cozens "simon@cpan.org"