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.IX Title "Dancer::Plugins 3pm"
.TH Dancer::Plugins 3pm "2011-11-30" "perl v5.14.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Dancer::Plugins \- interesting plugins to add to Dancer's capabilities
.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 acces 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 a \s-1HTML\s0 page, or as an \s-1XML\s0 sitemap ready for
Google) based on the routes your app defines.
.IP "Dancer::Plugin::Validation" 4
.IX Item "Dancer::Plugin::Validation"
Easy data validation powered by Oogly.
.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\s0 \s-1RSS\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!