FWIW:I would suggest a simple OO-approach, encapsulating the necessary DBI-code, for the article managment combined with a templating system like Template-Toolkit. I have recently realised a community-site for one of our customers using slashcode, you could reuse the TT<-->DB coupling code of it with a little bit of effort and would gain a very flexible site.

You can find other, I assume more easily applicable templating systems searching CPAN.

regards,
tomte

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