Perl Blog Code

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi there Monks!

I'd like to know if someone here would recommend a small, not to crazy Perl Script blog where I can use to share some information with a group of students. I would like something in a much smaller scale of what this great site "Perl Monks" is, any advice?

Thanks for helping!

[nightgoat]

I've used Blosxom before, and I can say that it's very lightweight. Each entry is just a text file, and Blosxom HTML-ifies it on the fly for visitors. It's built with Perl, too, so the students could poke around in it and see what's going on.

[gnosti]

I've had a blosxom site running maintenance free for years. It is a lot of bang with very little code, and a usable system of plugins.

Now I do something similar with my own code under Dancer. It took some effort to write, however I find it much easier to understand.

[aitap]

There is a number of good web frameworks written in Perl, namely Catalyst, Mojolicious, Dancer (and Dancer2). Try searching (on http://metacpan.org) for packages which depend on these modules, you'll probably find something useful.

See also: Re: Is there a catalyst project for learning? Lightweight Perl CMS

[Laurent_R]

I only had a very quick look at these frameworks, but my impression (I may be wrong) is that these things are powerful but relatively complicated to get started, so that a ligher, maybe more specialized, solution might be easier to implement. But I do not have the experience to suggest something in particular.

[DrHyde]

Dancer is very simple to use, I recommend it.

[LanX]

> that these things are powerful but relatively complicated to get started,

Have a look at Gabor's video: Building a blog engine using Perl Dancer

While it gives a nice introduction to Dancer I consider the blog-part kind of "cheating" ;-)

In reality it's user management and authentication which makes blogs and forums complicated...

Just automatically updating a webpage from user-input can be easily done with a simple CGI.

[aitap]

Frameworks by themselves are easy to use, it's the "blog" thing what is really complicated. One has to implement not just "pages" to create, edit and comment, but also user registration, access rights, CAPTCHA, e-mail password reminders and so on. Better find somebody who has already written most of it.

[LanX]

search blog software perl

no personal experience so far.. sorry.

But at least "Movable Type" and "Blosxom" sound familiar...

[PerlSufi]

Hi, I think there is blogs.perl.org ?
You could also make a git account that could be used to view code

[Anonymous Monk]

This script would be to talk about general topics other than just code. The users will be able to respond or comment on these postings.

[KevinZwack]

A wiki might be another option to consider...

[Laurent_R]

Hmmm, a wiki and a blog serve really quite different purposes. I don't think that a wiki would fir the OP's stated requirements. The OP wants something to share ideas, news and information with a groupe of people, so a blog or a mini forum is what is needed, a wiki is more for working collectively on a group of documents to improve them progressively together.

[soonix]

Well, Oddmuse is a Wiki written in Perl, and it can be configured as a blog with categories.
As it requires basic (hmm, not too basic...) knowledge about webserver config :-) maybe it's not exactly what the OP looks for, but I think it might come near.

[KevinZwack]

I have to disagree; a good wiki can selectively give write access to a limited number of users (or just the owner) and thus meet all of the OP's requirements.

[Anonymous Monk]

We used to use Google Groups for this sort of thing when I used to do CFD, but it's been a few years since I moved on from that role.

I don't know what the state of the functionality is under the Google+ paradigm they rolled out since. -Greg