I work for a small non profit org, the guy who wrote this application no longer works for us. The app is a small intranet type system with some basic search screens. At the moment theres a index.cgi instance script and one application .pm file, then for some reason many other stand alone scripts which get called via ajax to do some things. I'm new to perl and working my way over the documents. I have to make some changes and add functionality, but first this seems un organised, each of these stand alone scripts required database config, I want to incorporate this into the .pm file so there's one configuration, and less work to do. This is not my problem. My actual problem is that when I add the functions from these scripts to my .pm file, it's huge, lots of lines of code. My question is how do I split up a CGI::Application over multiple .pm files, for example one for common things, one for ajax stuff, etc. Thanks in advance

In reply to Refactor CGI::Application and supporting scrits by Anonymous Monk

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