Re: Re: More on Web Application Frameworks

[impossiblerobot]

Thanks, rob_au, I would appreciate seeing what you've done.

It sounds like the list of tools you mentioned would probably meet all of my requirements, but would require some work to integrate. I guess I need to really delve into CGI::Application, to see how much it can really do for me.

Update: I forgot to mention that although HTML::Template doesn't really match my preference as far as tag/markup style, it's probably something I can live with (which is fortunate, since CGI::Application seems to be tied to it).

Impossible Robot

[rob_au]

The following is a small script framework that I have used for a couple of smallish CGI applications. While it doesn't incorporate session handling in any sense more than hidden HTML fields, this could easily be changed through the use of Apache::Session and instead of returning the parameters retrieved so far into hidden fields of the template markup, the single session id could be that passed into these fields.

Also too, with regard to templating engine, there is nothing to stop your usage of Template::Toolkit with CGI::Application, an aspect of usage which I commented on here.

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[impossiblerobot]

Thanks again, rob_au. I can already see some techniques that I can use, and the comments in the code are very helpful.

And yes, after I wrote my update, I looked at CGI::Application in more detail and realized that it is really not so closely integrated with HTML::Template (perhaps not even enough to be meaningful). I still haven't settled on a templating module (or a framework), but you are right that using any templating module with CGI::Application should be fairly trivial.

Impossible Robot