1# PODNAME: Dancer::Plugins 2# ABSTRACT: interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities 3 4__END__ 5 6=pod 7 8=encoding UTF-8 9 10=head1 NAME 11 12Dancer::Plugins - interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities 13 14=head1 VERSION 15 16version 1.3513 17 18=head1 DESCRIPTION 19 20Dancer aims to keep the core as small as possible, but there are a growing 21number of useful plugins to add helpful features. 22 23This document provides a quick summary of some recommended plugins. 24 25=head1 PLUGINS 26 27=over 4 28 29=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Database> 30 31Provides easy database access via DBI, reading the DB connection details from 32your app's config file, and taking care of ensuring the connection is still valid 33and reconnecting if not (useful in persistent environments). Just calling the 34C<database> keyword gives you a connected and working database handle. It also 35provides some helpful keywords to make inserting/updating data as simple as it 36should be. 37 38=item L<Dancer::Plugin::DBIC> 39 40Provides easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization. 41 42=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Auth::RBAC> 43 44Dancer Authentication, Security and Role-Based Access Control Framework. 45 46=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Email> 47 48Provides easy email-sending powered by Email::Send - simply call the C<email> 49keyword. Email sending settings can be taken from your app's config. 50 51=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SMS> 52 53Send SMS text messages to mobile phones from your Dancer app, using any service 54supported by L<SMS::Send>. 55 56=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Ajax> 57 58Provides easy way to add Ajax route handlers. 59 60=item L<Dancer::Plugin::REST> 61 62Makes writing RESTful web services easy. 63 64=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap> 65 66Automatically provides site maps (as an HTML page, or as an XML sitemap ready for 67Google) based on the routes your app defines. 68 69=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Params::Normalization> 70 71Provides different ways of normalizing parameter names 72 73=item L<Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD> 74 75Provides easy CRUD (create, read, update, delete) facilities, automatically 76creating routes to display, add, edit and delete data from a database table. 77 78=item L<Dancer::Plugin::WebSocket> 79 80Supports building apps using Web Sockets for bi-directional, full-duplex 81communications over a long-lived socket connection. 82 83=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Memcached> 84 85Cache page responses or individual items of data with memcached for performance. 86 87=item L<Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice> 88 89Quickly determine whether the client is a mobile browser, in order to offer a 90simplified layout, or otherwise customise features. 91 92=item L<Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf> 93 94Provides dead-simple profiling of your app using L<Devel::NYTProf> - enables 95profiling for each request individually, serves up a list of profiling runs, and 96generates & sends the HTML reports produced by C<nytprofhtml>. 97 98=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Bcrypt> 99 100Provides simple effective password hashing and validation using Bcrypt. 101 102=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Cache::CHI> 103 104Provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data. Uses L<CHI>, so is 105backend-agnostic - caching can be done in memory, to files, using Memcache, in a 106database, or any other method for which there is a L<CHI::Driver> module. 107 108=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Thumbnail> 109 110Easy thumbnail generation using L<GD>. 111 112=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Captcha::SecurityImage> 113 114Easy CAPTCHA image generation and validation, using L<GD>. 115 116=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Facebook> 117 118Easily work with Facebook's Graph API from your Perl Dancer app. Uses 119L<Facebook::Graph>. 120 121=item L<Dancer::Plugin::Redis> 122 123Easy L<Redis> database connections, based upon L<Dancer::Plugin::Database>. 124 125=item L<Dancer::Plugin::XML::RSS> 126 127Easy XML RSS creation and consumption. 128 129=back 130 131More plugins are appearing on CPAN all the time - just search for 132C<Dancer::Plugin> to see what may have been released since this document was 133last updated! 134 135=head1 AUTHOR 136 137Dancer Core Developers 138 139=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 140 141This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh. 142 143This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 144the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 145 146=cut 147