On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Bill Stephenson wrote: > I use CGI.pm to build web apps all the time. > > I think the notion that CGI and CGI.pm is out dated is kind of silly in fact. > > Using CGI.pm with HTML::Template is still a very fast and efficient way to > develop web apps. And I could eek everyone out by pointing out I have used HTML::Template for job control on some IDL scripts - no web page there anywhere. So even if a module has HTML in it's name it can still be re-purposed. > > CGI::Application is another framework you can look at. It has a pretty solid > community. > > Personally, for small, simple apps, I think using a framework is silly, so is > using a SQL database in many cases. Approaching small and simple apps the > same as you'd approach apps that get millions of hits an hour is like using a > Long Haul 18 Wheeler to deliver a pizza a couple block away. > +1 on that. AFAIK, being able to use mod_perl still implies having control of Apache and it's config. I haven't yet heard of a hosting company providing mod_perl out there though I'd like to know if there are any.
And others have mentioned PSGI and FastCGI in this thread. Here's some mail archives that discuss CGI(.pm), CGI::Fast and PSGI implementations in gitweb. http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg131014.html http://lists-archives.com/git/719218-gitweb-fastcgi-and-psgi-plack.html Regards Lesley Binks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
