[Catalyst] Anyone with PHP / Smarty Background

[Hermida, Leandro]

> From: Rhett Creighton [mailto:rhett at creighton.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 07:42
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Anyone with PHP / Smarty Background
> 
> On that note, I'm really confused when I see projects with 
> all these random directories OUTSIDE the MVC directories.  
> Maybe they're inside lib/MyApp, maybe they're not.  Can 
> somebody shed some light on this?  For example, in the 
> mojomojo source, inside lib/MojoMojo, the directories are 
> Model, View, Controller, Formatter, Schema .  Shouldn't 
> Schema and Formatter be in Model?  
> 
> Related question 2:  I'm writing modules for Catalyst App, 
> that I'd like to be accessible outside my Catalyst app.  
> Sure, I could just put the modules in my site_perl directory, 
> but are there preferred methods, to keep the app bundled 
> better?  I assume that's what these extraneous directories I 
> see may be trying to achieve?
> 
> Can someone shed some light on this?  Thanks!
> 
> Rhett
> 
> 
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher Heschong wrote:
> 
> > Yep.  The one thing that confused me and has confused every new 
> > developer on my team is the "View" in Catalyst's Model/View/ 
> > Controller.  They always expect that's where they'll 
> generate the HTML 
> > or whatever, ala PHP.  This isn't exactly the case.  99% of 
> the time 
> > you'll have Catalyst create a Template Toolkit view for you,
> 

Hello, I think you might find some stuff in previous threads on the
Catalyst list about project directory setup.  I brought up a similar
question in the December thread "[Catalyst] reference lib outside
Catalyst web application directory" starting here:

http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst/2006-December/010960.html

and continuing on

http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/catalyst/2006-December/010970.html

I have my DBIx::Class::Schema setup in a lib directory outside the
Catalyst web app directory because other non-web things need to use it
to access the database.  As discussed in the thread it's a matter of
preference on how you would like things organized (as is with most
things Perl).

Leandro