Table of Contents | Foreword | Preface
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Appendices: A B C D
Glossary | Colophon | Copyright

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Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
  
  • Intended Audience
  • Requirements
  • How to Read This Book
  • Overview
  • Other Resources
  • Typographic Conventions
  • We'd Like to Hear from You
  • Open Publication License
  • Acknowledgments
    
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  
  • A First Example
  • The Main Features of Mason
    
    • Components: Modular Design Elements
    • Object-Style Component Inheritance
    • Intelligent Caching Mechanisms
    • Integration with Apache and mod_perl
      
  • Alternatives to Mason
    
    • Embperl
    • Apache::ASP
    • HTML::Template
    • Text::Template
    • Template Toolkit
    • PHP
      
  • Philosophy
  • Getting Started with Mason
    
    • A Standalone Installation
    • A mod_perl Installation
    • Trying It Out
      
• Chapter 2: Components
  
  • Mason from 10,000 Feet
  • Core Concepts
  • Basic Component Syntax
    
    • Substitution Tags: <% %>
    • Embedded Perl: % Lines and <%perl> Blocks
    • Calling Other Components: <& &> Tags
    • Other Named Blocks
    • Escaping a Newline
      
  • Component Arguments
    
    • <%args> Block Revisited
    • %ARGS
    • %ARGS Versus @_
    • Argument Examples
    • Arguments via Component Calls
    • Arguments via HTTP Requests
      
  • Component Return Values
  • Special Globals
    
    • $m
    • $r
      
  • Sample Component
    
• Chapter 3: Special Components: Dhandlers and Autohandlers
  
  • Dhandlers
    
    • Finer Control over Dhandlers
    • Dhandlers and Apache Configuration
      
  • Autohandlers
    
    • Using Autohandlers for Initialization
    • Using Autohandlers as Filters
    • Inspecting the Wrapping Chain
      
  • Using Autohandlers and Dhandlers Together
    
• Chapter 4: APIs
  
  • Request Class and Object API
    
    • Constructor Parameters
    • Calling Other Components
    • Aborting the Flow of Execution
    • The Wrapping Chain
    • Dhandler-Related Methods
    • Miscellaneous Methods
    • Introspection
    • Buffer-Related Methods
    • Caching
    • Subrequests
    • Methods Available Only When Using ApacheHandler
    • Methods Available When Using ApacheHandler or CGIHandler
    • Getting in Close with Buffers
      
  • Component Object API
    
    • Methods for File-based Components
      
  • Buffers
    
• Chapter 5: Advanced Features
  
  • Subcomponents
  • Creating Components on the Fly
  • Sharing Data Among Component Sections
  • Methods and Attributes
    
    • Methods
    • Using Methods for Titles and Headers
    • Methods with Dynamic Content
    • Attributes
    • Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Inheritance
      
  • Calling Components with Content Blocks
  • Advanced Inheritance
    
    • Inheritance and Multiple Component Roots
    • An Advanced Inheritance Example
      
  • Subrequests
    
    • A Caution About Autohandler Inheritance
      
• Chapter 6: The Lexer, Compiler, Resolver, and Interpreter Objects
  
  • Passing Parameters to Mason Classes
  • The Lexer
  • The Compiler
    
    • Altering Every Component's Content
    • Compiler Methods
      
  • The Resolver
  • The Interpreter
    
    • Request Parameters Passed to the Interpreter
      
• Chapter 7: Using Mason with mod_perl
  
  • Configuring Mason
    
    • Configuration via httpd.conf
    • Configuration via Custom Code
      
  • Document Root Versus the Component Root
  • Not OK
  • $r
  • ApacheHandler Parameters
  • To Autoflush or Not to Autoflush
  • Generating Something Besides HTML
  • Apache::Status and Mason
    
• Chapter 8: Building a Mason Site
  

• Functionality
• Directory Layout
• File Extensions
• Apache Configuration
• The Components
• The Unrestricted Parts
• Components with Access Controls
• All Done
• Further Directions