One of the modules that we are using, which I hope to get on CPAN someday (can't right now cause of work restrictions.) is a Persistance mechanism for CGI. Basically a state machine. It's for heavyweight apps. (Some 30 or 40 screens.)

The nice thing about tieing the form generation to the code is that because it generates all the forms, we know what parameters to expect and what they should contain, even how many values they can provide all transparently. (Even files), There is no form validation at all as it's all handled through the object. If the user doesn't supply something, it rolls back state automatically and tells them what they need to do. (We might eventually build a templating system around it which would give us the benefits of both, just not a big priority right now.)

You pretty much can't break it. Usually the only thing required to use this on a script that uses CGI is to change the use statement and the call to new and you gain most of the benefits.

We use a parser to generate the form code from html which let's us leverage non-programmers for the UI.

These won't be used by a lot of people so the extra weight is well worth the trade for simplicity and speed in development.

For many applications, I would agree with you but I think sometimes it makes a lot of sense. Plus if we have to migrate it to a new machine it's a matter of setting up one module and one script and where done.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: OO CGI vs. function-oriented by shotgunefx
in thread OO CGI vs. function-oriented by krujos

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