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Subject: Re: Should I use CGI.pm? From: "Peter J. Schoenster" <peter@schoenster.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:36:44 -0700 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/ === Subject: Re: Should I use CGI.pm? From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:41:41 +0100 (CET) On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, 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? ) It's much simpler than you think -- Lincoln Stein is the one who wrote and maintains CGI.pm :) (he is the co-author) It's a very good module, but it's quite bloated. So if you need to process forms and you are under mod_perl Apache::Request is the one to go with. === Subject: Re: Should I use CGI.pm? From: "Thierry-Michel Barral" <kktos@electron-libre.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:52:39 +0100 except it's a little buggy ! (Apache::Request) I have been obliged to return to CGI.pm, coz libapreq cannot handle correctly the multipart enctype, as for file upload.... What about the 0.32 ? I'm a bit underskilled to patch and compile such a tool, but If someone can help me, I will be pleased to start the process. ===