Hi all, I'm investigating the technology to use in building a new website in which we will be displaying data from a database to users according to fairly complex selection criteria.
We've currently got a prototype running using Apache and Perl/CGI - we're mature (too mature?) Perl programmers, Perl is a good choice for us. The current prototype manages navigation around the site and choice of stylesheet, by processing the CGI submission events (using the CGI::XMLApplication Perl module) and then using Perl code called from the CGI script. However, I'm interested in whether AxKit will provide a better platform for us. It looks *very* good, and very likely to provide a better solution, but I have some questions (naturally), specifically... Does AxKit support user session/login management as part of its core functionality? With AxKit, how does one set up the basic stylesheet-selection mechanism? For example, if a user fills data on a page produced using stylesheet A, how to take the user to stylesheet B, displaying data produced from having queried the database using parameters supplied in stylesheet A. I presume that ultimately we're into HTML forms etc., or do I presume wrong? Any pointers would be appreciated! (Oh yes, and are people generally using XpathScript or XSL?) Thanks, James Lavery MicroSec Ltd
