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Personally I prefer CGI::Lite over CGI. For me I find the interface much cleaner than CGI, and it's drastically faster, not having to load thirteen million subroutines for doing every possible thing someone might conceive doing with cgi/html. For example to get your form data you just do: 
my $c = new CGI::Lite;
my %post = $c->parse_form_data('POST');

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or to get cookies you just call parse_cookies(). But this is all the module does, just parse forms and cookies, it doesn't bother with all the bastardized html functions (Which I deeply, deeply hate, but thats another story) and other assorted nonsense CGI comes with.

As to html, I vastly prefer using HTML::Template for all of my html needs. And another advantage to both of these modules is that they're "pure perl" meaning all you would have to do is download cgi-lite.tar.gz, make a folder on your website called 'CGI' and then upload the file called 'Lite.pm' to that folder, then presto, you can instantly use CGI::Lite;.

In reply to Re: Using CGI.pm by BUU
in thread Using CGI.pm by Deanimal

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