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.IX Title "Dancer::Plugins 3pm"
.TH Dancer::Plugins 3pm "2023-02-10" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Dancer::Plugins \- interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 1.3521
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Dancer aims to keep the core as small as possible, but there are a growing
number of useful plugins to add helpful features.
.PP
This document provides a quick summary of some recommended plugins.
.SH "PLUGINS"
.IX Header "PLUGINS"
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Database" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Database"
Provides easy database access via \s-1DBI,\s0 reading the \s-1DB\s0 connection details from
your app's config file, and taking care of ensuring the connection is still valid
and reconnecting if not (useful in persistent environments).  Just calling the
\&\f(CW\*(C`database\*(C'\fR keyword gives you a connected and working database handle. It also
provides some helpful keywords to make inserting/updating data as simple as it
should be.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::DBIC" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::DBIC"
Provides easy access to DBIx::Class database virtualization.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Auth::RBAC" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Auth::RBAC"
Dancer Authentication, Security and Role-Based Access Control Framework.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Email" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Email"
Provides easy email-sending powered by Email::Send \- simply call the \f(CW\*(C`email\*(C'\fR
keyword.  Email sending settings can be taken from your app's config.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::SMS" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::SMS"
Send \s-1SMS\s0 text messages to mobile phones from your Dancer app, using any service
supported by SMS::Send.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Ajax" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Ajax"
Provides easy way to add Ajax route handlers.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::REST" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::REST"
Makes writing RESTful web services easy.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::SiteMap"
Automatically provides site maps (as an \s-1HTML\s0 page, or as an \s-1XML\s0 sitemap ready for
Google) based on the routes your app defines.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Params::Normalization" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Params::Normalization"
Provides different ways of normalizing parameter names
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::SimpleCRUD"
Provides easy \s-1CRUD\s0 (create, read, update, delete) facilities, automatically
creating routes to display, add, edit and delete data from a database table.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::WebSocket" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::WebSocket"
Supports building apps using Web Sockets for bi-directional, full-duplex
communications over a long-lived socket connection.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Memcached" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Memcached"
Cache page responses or individual items of data with memcached for performance.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::MobileDevice"
Quickly determine whether the client is a mobile browser, in order to offer a
simplified layout, or otherwise customise features.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::NYTProf"
Provides dead-simple profiling of your app using Devel::NYTProf \- enables
profiling for each request individually, serves up a list of profiling runs, and
generates & sends the \s-1HTML\s0 reports produced by \f(CW\*(C`nytprofhtml\*(C'\fR.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Bcrypt" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Bcrypt"
Provides simple effective password hashing and validation using Bcrypt.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Cache::CHI" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Cache::CHI"
Provides caching for generated pages and/or arbitrary data.  Uses \s-1CHI\s0, so is
backend-agnostic \- caching can be done in memory, to files, using Memcache, in a
database, or any other method for which there is a CHI::Driver module.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Thumbnail" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Thumbnail"
Easy thumbnail generation using \s-1GD\s0.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Captcha::SecurityImage" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Captcha::SecurityImage"
Easy \s-1CAPTCHA\s0 image generation and validation, using \s-1GD\s0.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Facebook" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Facebook"
Easily work with Facebook's Graph \s-1API\s0 from your Perl Dancer app.  Uses
Facebook::Graph.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Redis" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Redis"
Easy Redis database connections, based upon Dancer::Plugin::Database.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::XML::RSS" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::XML::RSS"
Easy \s-1XML RSS\s0 creation and consumption.
.PP
More plugins are appearing on \s-1CPAN\s0 all the time \- just search for
\&\f(CW\*(C`Dancer::Plugin\*(C'\fR to see what may have been released since this document was
last updated!
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Dancer Core Developers
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.