Chunking HTML to database and back

danmcb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a project which involves some HTML pages that need to be translated into multiple langauges. The project is Perl CGI built around FastTemplate and mysql.

What I would like is this:

get a static page broken up, replace text with tags, put tags in db
make html forms that offer the text blocks (say between <p> tags up for translation.
the resulting content can then be either generated dynamically from teh db, or regenerate static pages

Doesn't actually sound too hard to code, but it's one of those things that should really exist already ... of course with nice utf8 froms and everything ...

any pointers as to the closest match that is already available out there?

2005-08-29 Retitled by Arunbear, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: '!$wheel_>reinvent()'

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Re: Chunking HTML to database and back by fokat (Deacon) on Aug 25, 2005 at 00:44 UTC
Dear danmcb I would look at using Catalyst for generating the application(s) and the interface to the underlying database, Template Toolkit for the presentation. There are modules that produce a CRUD with Catalyst with very little code, and that can be easily customized with TT to suit your need. If FastTemplate is a requirement, likely there is a View module for Catalyst that supports this too. Best regards -lem, but some call me fokat	[reply]
Re^2: Chunking HTML to database and back by danmcb (Monk) on Aug 25, 2005 at 08:37 UTC
BTW, what is a CRUD?	[reply]
Re^3: Chunking HTML to database and back by sri (Vicar) on Aug 25, 2005 at 11:29 UTC
Second movie should explain it.	[reply]
Re^2: Chunking HTML to database and back by danmcb (Monk) on Aug 25, 2005 at 07:18 UTC
Thank you, lem/fokat ... I will definitely take a look. I went for FastTemplate for certain parts of the site that I expect to get > 90% of site traffic, so they are optimised for speed. I expect those scripts to end up under mod_perl before long. But the part I need the translation aids for are static pages and I could happily use another system there. so many CPAN modules, so litle time ...!	[reply]


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