Tags.App 2 System Requirements
Tags.App 2 requires Movable Type 3.31 or Movable Type Enterprise 1.02 or later. Like these editions of MT, Perl 5.6.1 is required however we strongly recommend using Perl 5.8.1 or later.
It also strongly recommended that Tags.App be used with either FastCGI or mod_perl. Tag searches are dynamic -- this means each page request causes MT to access the database to retreive the data and then merge it with the results template. The overhead of dynamic page rendering and the limitations of standard CGIs will cause Tags.App's performance to drag under even moderate site traffic conditions. FastCGI and mod_perl are more efficient and will allow the plugin to scale.
Tags.App relies upon a few external libraries that can be obtained from CPAN. All of these libraries ship with Movable Type 3.31 and Movable Type 1.02.
- Class::Accessor
- URI
- File::Spec (PathTools)
Tags.App also requires a few Movable Type libraries and frameworks we have developed that are independent of Tags.App. These too are included with the distribution of the plugin. They are:
- MT::XPlugin
A more advanced system for managing plugin resources.
- Template Layouts Toolkit
A toolkit for making reusable template layouts into tags.
- MT::Log::Base
A superclass for rapidly creating advanced logging features for plugins.
