Organizing Project: Perl CGI Script to Edit HTML table line by line

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

Oh wielders of the trout that slaps,
I come to you with a question about perl (this time). I am researching what I will need to know for my first major perl project. My masters want me to develop a script which would create form which allows a clerical worker to edit their web events calendar line by line. The calendar is similar to this one. This form should present the current tabled page with check boxes to edit or delete a table row. Once a row is selected the user would submit and either the row would be deleted ot the user would advance to enter the edited version in a multi-lined textfield.
My questions:
1) I have read the CGI.PM documentation. What other wisdom should I seek before attempting to begin?
2) Am I reinventing the wheel here? I seek laziness.
3) Am I framing this project in a foolish way?
TIA
jg

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Re: Organizing Project: Perl CGI Script to Edit HTML table line by line by synapse0 (Pilgrim) on Sep 14, 2001 at 18:42 UTC
1) perlsec, and other cgi/web security information.. sorry, i don't have a specific list offhand. 2) you say "the calendar is similar to this one", does that mean that the calendar code is already written? if so, then just writing an app to edit specific table info shouldn't be too hard at all.. and for the most part, it may posibly be small enough that it doesn't matter if you reinvent the wheel. But some things to look into might be some of the templating modules. 3) I don't think you give quite enough info to answer this. Again, if you're just editing specific table info, then nah, it should be a fun task. If you need to write the whole script.. well you've got quite a task ahead of you then... good luck, -Syn0	[reply]
Re: Re: Organizing Project: Perl CGI Script to Edit HTML table line by line by jerrygarciuh (Curate) on Sep 14, 2001 at 18:57 UTC
Yes they have the calendar page already done but not with this project in mind it is just an ordinary table with a set row format and monthly seperater bars. I was thinking I'll want to do some work on it to make it more friendly to the script. The idea is that as the calendar needs updating no webbies will need to be called. The clerical staff will just use pwd to update forever so it's not specific table info, but more a logical structure which will naturally keep it's order despite changes in the number of rows. I guess they'll also need a function to add month seperater bars. I realize I am rambling so I'll stop here. I am glad you think this sounds easy because I need it to not eat my life. Thx, jg	[reply]