[Catalyst] Getting Started

[David Storrs]

On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

> First, is it a correct assumption to make that the interaction  
> between Model and View is just a matter of the Controller stuffing  
> things into the stash?

It is just a question of SOMETHING stuffing things in the stash.   
What does the stuffing is open to question...there was a long thread  
on this recently.  It is summarized briefly here:

     http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/NecessaryBackgroundKnowledge

along with a bunch of other information that should help you out.

> Lastly, [trying to get a mental handle on whatcodes goes where in a  
> conversion], is it really just a matter of moving all of the non  
> presentation logic of the TT based site (cookie reads/writes, form  
> posts, redirects) into a Controller and leaving the presentation  
> code in the templates?

Mostly.  As with everything, it can be argued in multiple ways.   
Here's how I do it:

- Presentation logic is mostly in the templates
- Views mostly just set which template to display
- Models are a thin wrapper over the database
- Controllers manage the business logic


--Dks