[plug] seeking perl wisdom

[Jeff Williams]

Thanks for putting me onto HTML::Template. I have been writing very 
CGI::Application like code (I now realise) but have been wondering how 
to get this horrible HTML out of my perl code.

Awaits brutal slaying...

Jeff

ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:

>>If you were going to develop a web site from scratch - knowing what you
>>know now - that would require a high degree of dynamic content, and were
>>going to process online transactions (including credit card and cheque
>>order) using a RDB like Postgresql, what method of development would you
>>favour?
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><speculative heasrsay>
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>Purely my opinion for 'web applications' ... since I discovered
>HTML::Template and CGI::Application my life has never been the same.  If you
>want to force yourself to write some mildly reusable and readable Perl code,
>CGI::Application helps a lot and if you ever try to put HTML code in a Perl
>script it is my strong belief you should be brutally slain.  If you manage
>to survive, when you go back to maintain the program you'll wish you had
>been slain :)  CGI::Application and HTML::Template were designed to co-exist
>also.
>
>Just pick one framework you like the sound of and use it though, if it gets
>too awkward it is not the tool for you ... and you'll learn alot along the
>way, we don't want a Perl module flame war on here.  If i had chosen to read
>up on a different templating method before HTML::Template its name would
>probably appear above instead.
>
>mod_perl is worth knowing how to turn on even if you don't use any of it's
>specific power, it runs Perl scripts 10-20 times faster on my servers as a
>general rule.  Using that, and the plethora of Apache:: modules can provide
>some nice server-managed session and authentication management.
>
>I'd suggest becoming a regular at perlmonks.org too, they have newbie
>tutorials and forums to get your along the way.  I learnt a fair bit there
>when i started out.   And the infamous Camel book ("Programming Perl" by
>Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz [who even answers questions on perlmonks]) is
>worth getting, as is the Perl Cookbook IMHO.
>
>Oh and I use DBI/DBD for database interaction.  There are a few tricks with
>it to avoid sluggish behaviour, but they are spelt out quite plainly in most
>tutorials on it.
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></speculative heasrsay>
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>Ryan
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