console adventure game to html mod

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

new to perl and i have a decent little adventure game that is console based which consists of a main.pl and then about 5 perl modules which contain my objects - Room, Character, Weapon, etc (also using Moose).

i'd like to convert it to a html version - where the info displays in html form - a user clicks a new room or action and based off the click maybe a url param is passed and then and new text is displayed. something simple.

i'm much, much more familiar with java and in which case I would just use JSP.

so...i have apache2 and mod_perl. and in doing some research it seems like Template Toolkit might help me achieve this goal as well. at the moment i have a mod_perl.conf


PerlModule Perl::Lib::Game::Hello
PerlModule CGI

<Location /game>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Game::Hello
</Location>
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which helps me render this simple module.

package Game::Hello;
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);
  
  sub handler {
     my $r = shift;
     $r->content_type('text/html');
     $r->print("<html><body>Hello World!</body></html>\n");
     return Apache2::Const::OK;
   }
  
  1;
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if i visit localhost/game - this of of course produces 'Hello World!'. where i am lost is how to fit all the pieces together...i've read about TT and mod_perl and apache2...but I really can't figure out how fit the pieces of the puzzle together. if someone has a simple example that would help tremendously.

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Re: console adventure game to html mod_perl version by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2013 at 04:57 UTC
See Strange issue with Mojolicious and visit http://www.perldancer.org/ and http://mojolicio.us/ and watch the slides This might also help you organize :) Advice on Perl OO program structure (MUD), P6: OO Wizard Game (RPG kinda, sorta), 2D Game Engine in Perl - Kirsle.net	[reply]
Re: console adventure game to html mod_perl version by Pizentios (Scribe) on May 14, 2013 at 13:20 UTC
I would check out a framework like the above Anonymous Monk pointed out. Personally i have had great success with mojolicious. Once you learn the basics of a mojolicious lite app, it shouldn't be to hard to integrate your code into the lite app and have a full featured web based adventure game. -Pizentios	[reply]