state transitions in modperl

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

heyo:

im trying to figure out how to maintain a sense of state transition without if/else conditions

is there a way? im thinking there must be but i cant seem to find any documentation on it

for instance say the user calls a script and there is flow it can go through
what solutions are there, again running under modperl?

thanks again

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Re: state transitions in modperl by perrin (Chancellor) on Apr 16, 2002 at 03:19 UTC
There are about a million ways to do this. Some that have been coded up into frameworks and run on mod_perl include CGI::Application, Apache::PageKit, and OpenInteract. Of course we're basically just talking about a dispatch table here. No serious magic. I think CGI::MxScreen actually tries to control which states you can go to in which order.	[reply]
Re: state transitions in modperl by Dogma (Pilgrim) on Apr 16, 2002 at 06:31 UTC
I recently asked a similar question: CGI Design. The best solution was using a hash based dispatch table. Good Luck, -Dogma	[reply]