NAME

       Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp - template based module starter for CGI apps.

SYNOPSIS

           use Module::Starter qw(
               Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp
           );

           Module::Starter->create_distro(%args);

ABSTRACT

       This is a plugin for Module::Starter that builds you a skeleton CGI::Application module with all the
       extra files needed to package it for CPAN. You can customize the output using HTML::Template.

VERSION

       This document describes version 0.44

DESCRIPTION

       This module subclasses Module::Starter::Simple and includes functionality similar to
       Module::Starter::Plugin::Template.  This document only describes the methods which are overridden from
       those modules or are new.

       Only developers looking to extend this module need to read this. If you just want to use
       Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp, read the docs for cgiapp-starter or titanium-starter instead.

METHODS

   new ( %args )
       This method calls the "new" supermethod from Module::Starter::Plugin::Simple and then initializes the
       template store. (See "templates".)

   create_distro ( %args )
       This method works as advertised in Module::Starter.

   create_LICENSE( )
       This method creates a "LICENSE" file in the distribution's directory which can hold the distribution's
       license terms.

   create_MANIFEST_SKIP( )
       This method creates a "MANIFEST.SKIP" file in the distribution's directory so that unneeded files can be
       skipped from inclusion in the distribution.

   create_modules( @modules )
       This method will create a starter module file for each module named in @modules.  It is only subclassed
       from Module::Starter::Simple here so we can change the rtname tmpl_var to be the distro name instead of
       the module name.

   create_perlcriticrc( )
       This method creates a "perlcriticrc" in the distribution's author test directory so that the behavior of
       "perl-critic.t" can be modified.

   create_server_pl( )
       This method creates "server.pl" in the distribution's root directory.

   create_t( @modules )
       This method creates a bunch of *.t files.  @modules is a list of all modules in the distribution.

   create_tmpl( )
       This method takes all the template files ending in .html (representing HTML::Template's and installs them
       into a directory under the distro tree.  For instance if the distro was called "Foo-Bar", the templates
       would be installed in "lib/Foo/Bar/templates".

       Note the files will just be copied over not rendered.

   create_xt( @modules )
       This method creates a bunch of *.t files for author tests.  @modules is a list of all modules in the
       distribution.

   render( $template, \%options )
       This method is given an HTML::Template and options and returns the resulting document.

       Data in the "Module::Starter" object which represents a reference to an array @foo is transformed into an
       array of hashes with one key called $foo_item in order to make it usable in an HTML::Template
       "TMPL_LOOP".  For example:

           $data = ['a'. 'b', 'c'];

       would become:

           $data = [
               { data_item => 'a' },
               { data_item => 'b' },
               { data_item => 'c' },
           ];

       so that in the template you could say:

           <tmpl_loop data>
               <tmpl_var data_item>
           </tmpl_loop>

   templates ( )
       This method reads in the template files and populates the object's templates attribute. The module
       template directory is found by checking the "MODULE_TEMPLATE_DIR" environment variable and then the
       config option "template_dir".

   Build_PL_guts($main_module, $main_pm_file)
       This method is called by create_Build_PL and returns text used to populate Build.PL when the builder is
       Module::Build; $main_pm_file is the filename of the distribution's main module, $main_module.

   Changes_guts
       Implements the creation of a "Changes" file.

   LICENSE_guts
       Implements the creation of a "LICENSE" file.

   Makefile_PL_guts($main_module, $main_pm_file)
       This method is called by create_Makefile_PL and returns text used to populate Makefile.PL when the
       builder is ExtUtils::MakeMaker; $main_pm_file is the filename of the distribution's main module,
       $main_module.

   MANIFEST_SKIP_guts
       Implements the creation of a "MANIFEST.SKIP" file.

   MI_Makefile_PL_guts($main_module, $main_pm_file)
       This method is called by create_MI_Makefile_PL and returns text used to populate Makefile.PL when the
       builder is Module::Install; $main_pm_file is the filename of the distribution's main module,
       $main_module.

   module_guts($module, $rtname)
       Implements the creation of a "README" file.

   README_guts($build_instructions)
       Implements the creation of a "README" file.

   perlcriticrc_guts
       Implements the creation of a "perlcriticrc" file.

   server_pl_guts
       Implements the creation of a "server.pl" file.

   t_guts(@modules)
       Implements the creation of test files. @modules is a list of all the modules in the distribution.

   tmpl_guts
       Implements the creation of template files.

   xt_guts(@modules)
       Implements the creation of test files for author tests. @modules is a list of all the modules in the
       distribution.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-module-starter-plugin-cgiapp at rt.cpan.org", or
       through the web interface at rt.cpan.org <http://rt.cpan.org>. I will be notified, and then you'll
       automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

AUTHOR

       Jaldhar H. Vyas, <jaldhar at braincells.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2015, Consolidated Braincells Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

       This distribution is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

       a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at
       your option) any later version, or

       b) the Artistic License version 1.0 or a later version.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.

SEE ALSO

       cgiapp-starter, titanium-starter, Module::Starter, Module::Starter::Simple,
       Module::Starter::Plugin::Template.  CGI::Application, Titanium, HTML::Template