As I begin my first major CGI undertaking, I find myself making lots of little CGI programs which I am passing parameters to and from and feel like there is probably a more elegant, and secure, way to do the whole thing as one CGI program with subroutines. Example: currently I have a database, users can select an item to change it. So I have the database CGI, then then CGI file for asking what changes are needed for a particular entry, and then another CGI file to submit the changes. This could all be one file I feel, but I have questions about how to do this:

-can a single CGI script produce several HTML pages-say output one, wait 30 seconds and then output another. If this is possible, how do I do it?

-If put all my files together into subroutines of one big program, every time I execute it I need some mechanism to decide which subroutine to go to....do I pass some parameter like subroutine=editentry and then have some sort of PERL if statement to go to the proper subroutine? If I do this than I need to also know how to pass parameters from an HTML form which are not being entered by the user. How do I do this?

Any help would be great! Thanks!

Jeff

In reply to CGI: Make one big program or lots of little ones? by Anonymous Monk

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