# HTML::Mason::Utils - phpMan

## NAME
    [HTML::Mason::Utils] - Publicly available functions useful outside of
    Mason

## DESCRIPTION
    The functions in this module are useful when you need to interface code
    you have written with Mason.

## FUNCTIONS
    data_cache_namespace ($comp_id)
        Given a component id, this method returns its default "[Cache::Cache]"
        namespace. This can be useful if you want to access the cached data
        outside of Mason.

        With a single component root, the component id is just the component
        path. With multiple component roots, the component id is
        "key"/"path", where "key" is the key corresponding to the root that
        the component falls under.

    cgi_request_args ($cgi, $method)
        This function expects to receive a "CGI.pm" object and the request
        method (GET, POST, etc). Given these two things, it will return a
        hash in list context or a hashref in scalar context. The hash(ref)
        will contain all the arguments passed via the CGI request. The keys
        will be argument names and the values will be either scalars or
        array references.