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in thread Perl CGI -disabled

I understand and I support the removal as a sane way to get Perl out of defaulting to the 90s but it’s not quite fair to say that there are easier alternatives for everything. Yes extensible, scalable, modern, forward-thinking, editable, etc but CGI.pm’s HTML generation and parameter handling is faster and eaiser than templates and I’ll continue to use it in one-offs, helpers, starting or piecing together templates, etc. Knocking this out with a template or a hand rolled .psgi or even mojolicious is more effort. The effort of course may be justified but sometimes it’s all one wants or needs–

perl -MCGI=:all -E 'say header(), start_html(), h1("OHAI"), start_form(), p(textfield("search")), submit("Go"), end_form(), end_html()'

Years of really excellent work went into the kit as messy as is it and it can still be a nice tool when not used for things other than the backbone for a “real” application.

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Re^7: Perl CGI -disabled
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 24, 2014 at 07:54 UTC

    At work I maintain some legacy code which uses CGI and CGI::Application, for both of which I employ a templating system since I find it much easier to work with HTML that way. IMHO it's much easier (and takes less time) to keep HTML/CSS/JS separate from perl code.

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      I don’t disagree at all. My job is similar. I am just shy of the pervasive, long term slamming and rooting for round-filing CGI.pm. It’s a valuable tool even though I agree it shouldn’t be on the front lines anymore. I think there would be much less home-rolled parameter handling code in the wild, for example, without the oft shown attitude that CGI.pm is somehow toxic.

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Re^7: Perl CGI -disabled
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 24, 2014 at 09:05 UTC

    or even mojolicious is more effort.  perl -MCGI=:all -E " say header(), start_html(), h1('OHAI'), start_form(), p(textfield('search')), submit('Go'), end_form(), end_html() "

    I love CGI.pm too, but Mojolicious is just as quick for lots of things :) 

    $ mojo generate lite_app RoShamBo.pl
  [exist] C:\test
  [write] C:\test\RoShamBo.pl
  [chmod] RoShamBo.pl 744

$ cat RoShamBo.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Mojolicious::Lite;

# Documentation browser under "/perldoc"
plugin 'PODRenderer';

get '/' => sub {
  my $c = shift;
  $c->render('index');
};

app->start;
__DATA__

@@ index.html.ep
% layout 'default';
% title 'Welcome';
Welcome to the Mojolicious real-time web framework!

@@ layouts/default.html.ep
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head><title><%= title %></title></head>
  <body><%= content %></body>
</html>

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    Add a form and 
            <h1>OHAI</h1>
        %= form_for '/' => begin
            %= text_field 'search'
            %= submit_button 'Go'
        %  end

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    and you're off and running
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      Mojolicious is great, especially, in my view, for testing. The equivalent example is *excellent* to include here but please see the irony. The code to point out how easy CGI.pm could be for some things was literally a one-liner. :P

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        Mojolicious is great, especially, in my view, for testing. The equivalent example is *excellent* to include here but please see the irony. The code to point out how easy CGI.pm could be for some things was literally a one-liner. :P

        Ease and irony do not count lines :P

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