[MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: web publishing with perl

[Adam Jenkins <adam.jenkins@flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

>  >Does anyone have any perl resources that help with the task of web
>publishing?

Nothing specific, but I have a lot of techniques and stuff which can 
sometimes help.

>  >The functionality I'm thinking of is template based publishing and
>>also online like enableing users to contribute to pages, and
>  >messageboards.

It is fairly straightforward, if I am thinking of the right thing, 
and I do it a lot. I use perl to manage databases of information 
which are then inserted into html pages through a special and very 
simple system of custom tags within html template files, and I 
add/edit/delete database entries through forms using perl to 
instantly update the site as I go. The result is a large site which 
can be managed through forms by non-technical staff, but which can 
then output html pages rather than having to call the cgi everytime 
you want to view a page, as would be the case in solutions that would 
use something like filemaker. However, rather than developing one 
massive app to manage the whole site, I instead run a large number of 
small cgis, and simply convert an existing one whenever I wish to 
expand on the functionality of the site.

It works well, but it takes a lot of time. The cgis themselves are 
very easy and straightforward to code, but it gets more complex as 
you try to make them more flexible.

Is this the sort of thing you had in mind?

Regards,

Adam.
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