There really isn't much difference to building a script that handles an AJAX request compared to a regular request. The main difference is that the AJAX request usually returns XML, or possibly just a small snippet of HTML.

The hard part around AJAX is the JavaScript side (since I am a perl developer, JavaScript is hard ;). There are already some JavaScript libraries out there that can really simplify this. I've used one called Sarissa that works pretty well, but I haven't done enough in this area to recommend the "best" JavaScript library out there. Just do some searching.

If you want an example using CGI::Application, then you can have a look at my attempt at building an Upload Meter (something like Apache::UploadMeter). It is just a prototype, so there isn't much in the way of documentation, but it does show how you can do AJAX with CGI::Application (as you will notice, it is no different from a regular CGI::Application module). Here is a tarball of the entire prototype.

I would like to wrap this up in a simple to use module at some point, but time is my enemy right now :)

In reply to Re: AJAX and Perl-based web applications by cees
in thread AJAX and Perl-based web applications by srdst13

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