I dont know about the book, but this manual sure works and my opinion is its better than any book, (find the authorization/authentication and compare what you missed)
the url should be http://search.cpan.org/~zarquon/Catalyst-Manual-5.8005/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/01_Intro.pod att, Hernan On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ben Lavery <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > After installing Catalyst on an OpenIndiana virtual machine, I've been > working through the Definitive Guide to Catalyst for the last few weeks and > have been impressed with how smoothly most of it has gone. > > I have, however, become unstuck at Chapter 6. The book explains how to > create an application that uses some simple CRUD with user and role data, > and uses authentication to prevent users updating other user's data. > I have a working application that allows one to create and read user data, > but I can't figure out how to apply the authentication. The book says: > "When using the Authentication plug-in, as we showed in Chapter 3..." > > I've gone back to Chapter 3 and followed the steps, but I'm not sure where > I am supposed to put the "$c->authenticate". > If I place it in DBAuthTest::Controller::Root in a subroutine called > "auto", every page on the site needs me to log in, but no matter what I put > in the username and password fields it says that the data is invalid. > As such I have no idea where I have gone wrong, after Googling I can't find > similar problems, or people who have had similar problems or implemented a > similar system in a similar way. > I have looked at the source code provided on the publisher's site, but it > doesn't include code for the whole chapter, and indeed seems to stop given > code a page or two previous to where I am now... > > I have uploaded a copy of my application to > http://hashbang0.com/personal/DBAuthTest.tar.bz2 (~46K) which I hope help > demonstrate where I am currently. > > Many thanks for your time, I appreciate any help you can give, > > Ben Lavery > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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