"For any complex website I would strongly disagree with the advice to use CGI's html generation methods."

Depending upon the level of complexity, I would tend to agree with your assessment, although for my own work, I tend to mix and match. For instance, I might template the site look-and-feel components (top or left navbar, etc.) especially if I need a lot of Javascript to glue it all together, but for low- to medium-complexity screens, I sometimes choose to use CGI.pm exclusively for generating the HTML.

I find that for highly dynamic screens, CGI.pm is easier to work with than, say Dreamweaver and the like. It rarely takes more than a couple of iterations to tweak it into shape.

My .02.

dmm

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In reply to Re (tilly) 5: Editing Entries In A Flat Database by dmmiller2k
in thread Editing Entries In A Flat Database with cgi by koacamper

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