[Catalyst] Getting Started

[Christopher H. Laco]

David Storrs wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

What about things (data) that are needed for every page on a site, like 
cart count for example. It would seem that the easiest way would be to 
make a plugin instead of having every controller set a count in its sub.

Is there some sort of guideline of when things need to be plugins vs. 
Models?

-=Chris
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