This is the “official” documentation for the Perl web programming framework called PET.
| README First! | This is the “official” documentation for the Perl web programming framework called PET. |
| First thing to read | ...actually the second thing to read, becasue this is the first :) |
...actually the second thing to read, becasue this is the first :)
If you are new to PET, please start with reading the documentation in the order of appearance!
This is a rather big documentation, some of which is autogenerated from the source code, so you can get lost easily. On the other hand, if you start up reading the docs in the order as they should be, in about half an hour you will understand the basics of PET (and hopefully will be really wanting to give it a try!) In general, one hour of reading should be enough to give you a good start.
The introduction will give you a brief explanation on what PET is. Don’t worry if there was anything here you would not understand at first!
See here : Introduction
I have always thought that the best thing to learn a programming language/environment is to see a few examples. So take a look at a few basic examples!
The PET Explained document describes how PET is actually working. It helps a lot and if your read this.
Installing PET describes ways you can set up PET and the procedure of installing. You can skip this part until you get familiar with the system through the other docs.
The Files and directories is a small document about how PET stores its modules, templates, session files, etc. It’s easy reading.
Config, this incomplete documentations shows you all the config parameters you can set to finetune the way how PET works. It also gives you a brief idea about the features PET have.
The document Filters talks about a built-in feature called filtering. You don’t have to read this or use filtering at all. However, it can be a very powerful toy -- for example for creating multilingual sites.
PET is designed to be used with MVC-style Programming. To benefit from all the features of PET, you really should use this approach. Don’t worry, it’s easy!
This is the internal documentation of PET. Only for hackers!