PageKit^® is a mod_perl based web application framework that uses a template system and XML to separate the Model, View, Content and Controller. Provides elegant solutions to many difficult web programming problems, including session management, language localization, authentication, form validation, and co-branding.

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FEATURES

• Model/View/Content/Controller approach to design, provides a clean separation of the different components (logic, presentation, and data) of the website.
• Model is simply a set of OO Perl Classes whose methods get exposed to the client through URIs.
• Supports XSLT for separating content from presentation.
• upd! Language Localization. Automatically select correct language based on xml:lang attribute in XML files.
• PageKit Template language is based on HTML::Template and supports XPath queries using HTML::Template::XPath.
• PageKit Templates are pre-compiled and cached for fast delivery. XSL transformations are also cached, using the URI and any request parameters used in the <xsl:param> tag.
• Component based architecture. Can easily share templates across multiple pages using components, and may associate Perl methods to the components.
• upd! Session Management, provides easy access to hash tied to Apache::SessionX.
• Authentication. Provides site-wide authentication, including support for inactivity timeouts.
• Form Validation. Uses Data::FormValidator to validate form and highlights the invalid fields.
• Sticky/Auto-fill HTML Forms. Uses HTML::FillInForm fill in HTML Form fields from the request parameters or from the Model code.
• upd! Multiple Views. It is easy to plug-in different views. Examples include co-branding, printable views, and different media outputs such as HTML, XML, and WML.
• Easy error handing using Apache::ErrorReport. Screen display for development servers, email alerts for production servers.
• Gzipped output.
• Output in multiple character sets (supports all that are suppored by iconv/Encode)
• Support for PDF output using Apache XML FOP
• Page based Session Management, provides easy access to hash tied to Apache::SessionX.
• new! Choice the output template language currently between HTML::Template, HTML::Template::Expr and Template.
• new! Overwrite/extend the default request_class.

Examples

Sites using PageKit

www.millerhomes.co.uk
An excellent PageKit site built by Benedict Ausden at navyblue new media for Miller Homes.

www.collectornetwork.com
Another excellent PageKit site developed by www.soludium.com.

maxmind.com
The MaxMind web site is powered by PageKit. GeoIP is a collection of APIs and databases for determining the Geographical Location of any IP address.

H:S, the consortium of seven hospitals in Copenhagen, uses Pagekit for its DNS administration interface, developed by catpipe Systems ApS.  There is no URL for the interface itself since it is only available from inside H:S.

www.ubiquitywellness.com
Yet another site powered by PageKit. This site and the underlying web application (for internal users) was implemented by a team of Perl hackers at Evris Ventures (www.e-vris.com) lead by Vladimir Bogdanov. Virtually every feature of PageKit framework was utilized to produce a powerful patient management and wellness tracking (xray imagery, analysis data, questionnaire etc) system for a health clinic.

www.chainz.com
Example of ecommerce site built with PageKit and Apache 2.0. Chainz sells collection of comtemporary jewelry just for men.

Korean Directory
Example of ODP like directory site powered by PageKit. Uses PageKit's pkit_fixup_uri to control easy to read URL structure and on-screen editing feature for content and link editors.

TODO

• Improved caching, including caching of Model output.
• Chain of Responsibility for Content handlers, allowing multiple XSLT processors to attempt to handle XSL transformations.
• Support for cascading stylesheets, filters for PageKit Templates.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004 AnIdea Corporation. All rights Reserved. PageKit is a registered trademark of AnIdea Corporation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Ricoh Source Code Public License for more details.

Authors

Boris Zentner from Brainstorm has contributed numerous patches and is currently maintaining the package.

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