On 28 Nov 2000, at 18:54, quagly wrote:
> I am working my way through the eagle book. I have not used CGI.pm
> before. It is used in many (most?) of the examples.
>
> Is it worth learning to use it?
>
> I am not clear whether the authors are using it because the think it
> is the best way to go, or because they already know it ( or created it
> )and it is convenient.
>
> I have not done CGI programming before, but have some experience with
> java servlets. It there a compelling reason I should learn it ( other
> than that it would help me to understand the book? )
I have long used CGI.pm but I never used most of its functions The
following module supplies me with everything I got from CGI.pm:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/GEOFF/Apache-
RequestNotes_0.05/RequestNotes.pm
It really gives me the essence (form values in a hash) of what I
need ... it gives more but I haven't been there yet.
I'd suggest using a template system. My favorite (easily spans
plain cgi to modperl and is very easy for designers to understand)
is:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/SAMTREGAR/HTML-Template-
2.0/Template.pm
There are plenty more and I believe there was recent discussion (or
periodic).
Also, search the archives, there has been periodic talk about this. I
use these archives but there are others:
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/182/0/
Peter
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