Timothy Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> : On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Steve Howard wrote:
> :
> : > Can someone point me to an example of a completely Object Oriented CGI
> : > script. The Perldoc examples are procedural, but there must be a good OOP
> : > example somewhere for me to tear apart and learn that technique from.
> : ...
> : Basically, we had one class that
> : modelled the data (using DBI underneath, but it was hidden by the class's
> : interface), another class that handled displaying the data (using CGI, but
> : again, the interface hid the details of CGI), and finally, a third top
> : level class that decided which screen to display by dynamically
> : dispatching methods based on a state variable to determine which screen
> : needed to be displayed.
>
> An interesting twist on the display is to use templates, e.g. the
> Template Toolkit or HTML::Template. Then not only is the display
> separated from the logic, but the views can then be maintained by a
> non-programmer.
Another excellent URL is:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/05/cgi.html
Using CGI::Application
Vinicius
