Foorum::Manual::Tutorial1 - Tutorial 1: Catalyst Plugins used in Foorum
Catalyst::Plugin::Config::YAML::XS
Why we are using Config::YAML::XS instead ConfigLoader is under a simple RULES, Fast is better.
Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
I think I need let Static::Simple be configurable later. because it's better let Apache handles static contents.
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication
Authentication is a important part in Foorum. viacheslav.t suggests
Another thing that i am concerned about is a way how to plug-in your forum to an existing Cat application. For example i have my own user infrastructure and registration, banning, blocking system (some things are borrowed from your code ;-)...
I'm strongly agree with him. so we will rewrite this part later.
but for now. in foorum.yml
authentication:
  default_realm: 'members'
  password_hash_type: "SHA-1"
  realms:
    members:
      credential:
        class: 'Password'
        password_field: 'password'
        password_type: "hashed"
        password_hash_type: "SHA-1"
      store:
        class: 'FromSub::Hash'
        model_class: "UserAuth"
here we are using Credential::Password and a Store::FromSub::Hash.
I must admit that FromSub::Hash is not good enough. but it doesn't hit database every request for $c->user. Store::DBIC is nice yet our Model/User.pm sub get is returning a cached user hash. so we use FromSub::Hash.
before we use Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Memcached, but that's not so flexiable. so we turn to use Catalyst::Plugin::Cache. the configuration in foorum.yml is:
cache:
  backends:
    default:
      class: 'Cache::FileCache'
      namespace: 'Foorum'
      default_expires_in: 600
meanwhile, we can use Memcached:
cache:
  backends:
    default:
      class: Cache::Memcached
      compress_threshold: 10_000
      debug: 0
      servers:
        - 127.0.0.1:11211
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::DynamicExpiry
for the "Remember Me?".
that's pretty normal here. we use DBIC and Cookie. no URI since that's bad.
check Foorum/I18N/cn.po and tw.po then u can write one for your own. that's easy!
Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator::Simple
we are going to HTML::FormFu.
captcha:
  session_name: captcha_string
  new:
    width: 80
    height: 30
    lines: 1
    gd_font: giant
  create:
    - normal
    - rect
  particle:
    - 100
  out:
    force: jpeg
it's configurable. u can disable by set
function_on: maintain: 0 register: 1 create_forum: 1 scraper: 0 page_cache: 0
when page_cache: 1, it will be enabled.