I definitely recommend using a template engine and using an Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework; the template engine helps with the view part. I was first introduced to it on the tutorials under documentation on perl.apache.org. It took me a little while to figure out how to create & instantiate objects in perl, but once I figured that out, it has been smooth sailing since. I have since learned to apply the concepts to my php web programming at work.
greanie --- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:03:55 +0300 > "Greger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there anything in particular that one should > take into account > > regarding modperl and design patterns vs trad > CGI-scripting? > > > > As for now, I return XML from the package methods, > and use XSLT for > > the transformation to XHTML. This works very well, > seems flexible, > > but are there better ways? > > > > I guess it all depends on what one is doing, > naturally. In this case > > it is an application using the mysql database. > > There are a bunch of people who do this, from Perl > CGIs, mod_perl, > and even with other languages/frameworks/etc. > > It's a perfectly reasonable way of doing things, > but does cause you to > do a bunch of extra processing. Putting your data > into XML, and then > transforming it into XHTML with XSLT. > > What I typically recommend to people is that they > use a template > engine like Template-Toolkit.org. You simply pass > it a Perl data > structure and then you have all of the same > transformation > possibilities as XSLT ( at least as I understand > it ). And if you > ever need the data as XML, you simply create a > template for > that ( or pass a special option to your handlers > to return XML, > etc. ). > > There are tons of different ways to do it. What I > would look for is > to optimize for the "general case" of "I need to > deliver XHTML" and > worry about "I might need this as XML at a later > date" for that later > date. :) > > --------------------------------- > Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.wiles.org > --------------------------------- > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
