Dear fellow monks,

this one is language-independent and therefore quite offtopic, but I hope to get some input though ...

I am starting my first CGI project and want to build an application using LAMP. I've read a lot in books and The Monastery and learned how to get things working. Of course I will use strict, CGI and DBI and I plan to write the whole thing the literate programming style.

What I am wondering about is how to get the different functions, web-forms etc. organized. It's no big application at all, but I'd like it to be well done ... after thinking and sleeping over it, I would start building these files:

• index.pl
  "Home" of the application with links to the different other scripts
• app_func.pm
  Functions used by all other scripts: print page_header (whith navigation bar, window-title and app.-logo), print page_foot, connect to database, define colors and what not)
• patients.pl
  Implementing the functions for adding, modifying and deleting patients)
• tests.pl
  Functions for running tests on the patients (run test, print result, search for old test ...)
• and so on ...

Would this be a good start or are these too much files for a relatively small thingy?
Is building a module with standard functions the right way (app_func.pm)??

I appreciate any wisdom, comments, hints - thank you!

weini

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