I use Text::Template, which helps seperate the HTML from the perl code. See my posts at Node 12215 (in the thread Design vs. Code vs. Maintenance) and Node 14368 (in the thread Perl solutions for large websites?)

Basically Text::Template lets you embed Perl code into HTML. This can be a complete program, or a variable (the latter is the way I recommend). Thus you can have a perl program that does all the calculating, then dumps variables into an HTML file. Text::Template is flexible enough to support just about any situation, and you avoid the "my site doesn't work like that" problems of full site-maintainers such as HTML::Mason.

In reply to Re: Managing large CGI pages by swiftone
in thread Managing large CGI pages by jcwren

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