I'll be getting the "OO MVC jumpstart/starter application" soon and I'm
looking forward to learning from it.
I'd like to make a suggestion that someone create a sample app that
uses CGI.pm's built-in "Save" routine to store data:
open(my $FILE, "> $selected_file");
$DATA->save($FILE);
And, the built-in data retrieval routine:
open(my $FILE, "$selected_file")) {
$DATA = new CGI($FILE);
I don't really code SQL much, so I admit this request is selfish and
that I'm too lazy to want to learn a SQL, but I honestly don't think
that all apps need an industrial strength database engine to
store/retrieve data, and, if my app is designed well it should be
simple to switch from the above suggestion to an SQL database.
I think this would be useful for RAD prototyping and proof-of-concept
uses too.
I'll point out that this method is pretty fast too. If, for example,
you just want to load a users stored preferences data into an object,
and you know where the data file is at, ($user_path/$user) then this is
probably as fast as MySQL (maybe faster).
This also makes it easier to focus on learning about the CGI::App
framework when going through a starter application exercise.
I played with this a couple years ago myself, but I'm not qualified to
create a solid example app (I easily qualify to need one though ;) I
completed most of the features in the "starter application", but it was
hacked together pretty crudely. I'd submit it if I thought it be of any
use, but I'm pretty sure that at best you'd only get a chuckle or two
out of it.
Kindest Regards,
--
Bill Stephenson
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