[Catalyst] Sending Email from Page?

[Tomas Doran]

On 27 Mar 2011, at 16:30, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> "The model manages the behavior and data of the application domain,  
> responds to requests for information about its state (usually from  
> the view), and responds to instructions to change state (usually  
> from the controller)."

Right.

And I would say that sending an email is a state change, and behavior  
of the application domain here.

> An arbitrary helper subroutine used by the Controller is not a  
> Model.  Since it is side-effect only, it matches one of the links in  
> the graph (Controller TO Model) so it "fits" in the architecture  
> provides the proper connectivity.  But that is a kludge, not its  
> proper usage.

Again, I think that the sending of email from the application is _very  
much_ behavior. In future you may want to replace the implementation  
of it, or wrap it with extra functionality (e.g. to count the number  
of emails sent), or reuse it in an application context beyond the web  
app (e.g. sending email from a batch script).

With a model all of these things are not only possible, they're easy,  
and you've got a framework for the abstraction and use outside  
Catalyst already provided...

Cheers
t0m