Howtos

"How do I do X in Catalyst?"

Authentication and authorization

• Interim Authorization and Authentication Example - Until the documentation catches up with recent authentication/authorization changes, this might help you overcome any confusion.
• SSO Authentication - authentication via information provided by an external single-sign-on service.
• AuthOpenIDRolesDBIC - authenticate via OpenID, but fetch roles from local table.
• Redirect after login to the previous page
• Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State::URI and Catalyst::Plugin::Session::State::Cookie simultaneously (for swfupload)

Deployment

Misc

• Introduction to Catalyst for CGI Programmers
• Debugging Catalyst applications
• WritingComponents - How to write components (Model, Views and Controllers) and handle configuration
• WritingPlugins - Adding features to Catalyst
• Redirect Methods - How to handle redirecting, particularly after a POST request.
• Using Unicode
• Facebook applications
• Excel exporting
• Layering static content over your Catalyst Application with Apache and \FastCGI
• LongComputations - Giving something to your client before the controller is finished
• ChainedExamples - Examples of how to use :Chained()
• ModelConfigSharing - Sharing configurations between models
• ControllerAttributes - How To Create those nifty :Attributes
• Force a Download Dialog Box - How to force a download dialog box for files you want users to download.
• Do something with $c at the beginning of a request - How to access the $c object before Catalyst processes the request
• HTTP method matching for actions - Match action according to HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

Forms

• FormFu
• FormHandler

TT

• Dynamic META titles TT
• Disabling a TT wrapper for Ajax requests
• Template wrappers
• Rendering a TT file on the fly

Chained

• Intro

Other

• Extending Catalyst::Response
• Cross sub domain cookie
• Build a Database-Driven Website Quickly