"Hiya, trying to practise clean clode,"

Make life easy on yourself. If you're starting to write something new, don't use CGI, use something like Mojolicious::Lite (see als Tutorial). Your example is less that complete, and can't be reproduced (ownModuleOtherMethod()), if you want to update a page which has already been loaded consider using AJAX to update the page. Failing that please read How do I post a question effectively? and provide a short example which runs and demonstrates your problem.

Simplest solution: Use 2 templates instead of one. Since you are essentially outputting 2 completely different fragments of HTML (the header and the final results) and at different times, why not make them 2 separate templates?

If the screen is being updated, without being redrawn, in response to user activity, then what is happening behind the scenes is AJAX, where JavaScript code running on the browser is making asynchronous requests to the server, then updating the display ("DOM") accordingly. It is certainly possible to use a server-side template (output copied to a string, not printed ...) to prepare a block of HTML for delivery to the JavaScript client, which replaces a portion of the DOM with it, thus updating the display to include it.

But the admonition to "make it easy on yourself" is a good one. All of this sort of thing has been done before – a lot. Don't start from scratch.

What a bunch of poopy answers

Hi,

You need to organize your code (make subs with meaningful names), its like 2nd day programming stuff that people forget about until a framework slaps them in the face with the requirement, but you don't have to be unconcious about it, take charge of your code, give it name, like you would a stuffed animal, it makes playtime all the more interesting

Like this, this is you foo.cgi or foo.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use MyStuff; 
Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );
sub Main {
    MyStuff::RunCGI({ 'dbconfig' => { } });
##    print MyStuff::ThisPage( CGI->new({ page => 'thisone', debug=>1,
+in => 'making sure this works, dev, debug'} ) ); 
}
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This is your MyStuff.pm

package MyStuff;
use HTML::Template;
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI();

sub MyStuff::RunCGI {
    my $q = CGI->new;
    my( $headers, $body ) = MyStuff::DispatchCGI( $q );
    print $headers, $body;
}
sub MyStuff::DispatchCGI {
    my( $q ) = @_;
    my $page = $q->page || 'default';
    $page = 'ajax' if $q->request_method eq 'POST' and ...;
    return ThisPage( $q ) if $page eq 'thisone';
    return ThatPage( $q ) if $page eq 'thatone';
    return AjaxPage( $q ) if $page eq 'ajax';
}


sub MyStuff::ThisPage {
    my( $q ) = @_;
    my $template = HTML::Template->new ...;
    $template->param( foo => scalar $q->param('foo') );
    ...
    ...
    return $q->headers, $template->output;
}

sub MyStuff::AjaxPage {
    my( $q ) = @_;
    ...
    return $headers, $body;
}
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Your html template should include/link these two javascript files jquery.js myecho.js you can get example myecho.js from Mojolicious::Lite +and jQuery +AJAX + Mojo::Template, it uses jquery to make a http request to a url and retrieve some data from it, and update the webpage/dom/display/divtag the user sees

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