This is not a question on Perl usage, rather on using Perl to develop a good dynamic (as in data base driven) site. I am working at a government department, and we want to provide Internet access to some of our systems, to let clients query and in certain situations update data. Nothing (yet) as secure as on line banking, but we want reasonable protection.

I have played around with CGI.pm, mod-perl, embperl, and dbi, and can develop various data base query and update pages. However, I want to incorporate user registration, and all of the usual goodies. I have looked at Slash and Zope (yes, I know it is Zope is Python, but I am not too prejudiced). These seem to be bulletin board / discussion servers - just like PerlMonks.

Are there any suggestions for other tools? I want to include data base acess to Informix (using DBD::Informix), which is our corporate DBMS, reasonable flexibility in the page layout, open source licensing, and so on. What have other people used?

Target server platform is Solaris (Sparc) 2.5 / 2.6, Apache 1.3.latest, Informix 7.

Thanks in advance.

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