John Goodleaf wrote:
Hello, I'm not on the list, so please CC me directly.
Although I'm a reasonably competent Perl user I have never actually used it for CGI purposes, just for database querying/data munging. You can imagine my perpetual confusion at finding the Perl books in the "Web programming" section of the bookstore.
Anyway, I suddenly need to create CGIish app on short notice so I need to ramp up quickly. I notice there are a lot of CGI modules on CPAN, so I wonder if anyone has ever seen some kind of comprehensive review of these modules--a summary of their various strengths and weaknesses. I'd like to figure out which ones I might make use of, so I'm actually looking to RTFM. I just haven't found an M that suits.
CGI.pm seems to be the standard module for CGI programming. Look here:
http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.04/CGI.pm
Agreed, but do you have any particular ones in mind? Some are wrappers or off shoots of the one referenced, such as
CGI::Lite and CGI::Safe
Others may be part of the core CGI installation. Speaking of 'core' that would be a good reason to choose CGI.pm, aka it comes with newer versions of Perl by default.
PS How do you pronounce 'munging'? I'm having an argument with a coworker. The split is between 'munjing' and 'mung -ing' (hard G).
I've always pronounced it the first way.
Yep, first.
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