[Catalyst] Catalyst & Bricolage Integration

[Simon Wilcox]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Tobias Kremer wrote:

> Has anyone here already tried to get those two things together or has done
> something similar? Or is this just a stupid idea?

It's pretty straightforward. Use Bricolage to publish content that
Catalyst can then consume. We use Bricolage and Apache::Template like this
a lot and it wouldn't be hard to integrate Catalyst instead.

We use the wrapper facilities of TT to add the standard wrappers to basic
pages output by Bricolage. As Bricolage is output agnostic (i.e. it can be
html, asp, php or whatever you like) you can easily publish TT templates
to be incorporated into the publishing chain.

If your site is heavily trafficed you may want to put a squid proxy or
other caching solution into place to speed up the page delivery but for
reasonably sized sites that's not too much of a problem.

If you really want to you can use Bricolage to manage the distribution of
all your catalyst code too but that may be a step too far, it's certainly
possible but whether you'll want to do that is another matter.

HTH

Simon.

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