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Mason(3pm)


NAME

   Mason - Powerful, high-performance templating for the web and beyond

SYNOPSIS

     foo.mc:
       % my $name = "Mason";
       Hello world! Welcome to <% $name %>.

     #!/usr/local/bin/perl
     use Mason;
     my $mason = Mason->new(comp_root => '...');
     print $mason->run('/foo')->output;

DESCRIPTION

   Mason is a powerful Perl-based templating system, designed to generate
   dynamic content of all kinds.

   Unlike many templating systems, Mason does not attempt to invent an
   alternate, "easier" syntax for templates.  It provides a set of syntax
   and features specific to template creation, but underneath it is still
   clearly and proudly recognizable as Perl.

   Mason is most often used for generating web pages. It has a companion
   web framework, Poet, designed to take maximum advantage of its routing
   and content generation features.  It can also be used as the templating
   layer for web frameworks such as Catalyst and Dancer.

   All documentation is indexed at Mason::Manual.

   The previous major version of Mason (1.x) is available under the name
   HTML::Mason.

SUPPORT

   The mailing list is "mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net". You must be
   subscribed to send a message. To subscribe, visit
   <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users>.

   You can also visit us at "#mason" on <irc://irc.perl.org/#mason>.

   Bugs and feature requests will be tracked at RT:

       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Mason
       bug-mason@rt.cpan.org

   The latest source code can be browsed and fetched at:

       http://github.com/jonswar/perl-mason
       git clone git://github.com/jonswar/perl-mason.git

   The official Mason website is <http://www.masonhq.com/>, however it
   contains mostly information about Mason 1. We're not sure what the
   future of the website will be wrt Mason 2.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

   Thanks to Stevan Little and the Moose team for the awesomeness of
   Moose, which motivated me to create a second version of Mason years
   after I thought I was done.

   Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa and the PSGI/Plack <http://plackperl.org/>
   team, who freed me from ever worrying about server backends again.

SEE ALSO

   HTML::Mason

AUTHOR

   Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

   This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

   This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
   the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.



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