I find that its much easier to use a single script split up into subs. Its fairly easy to invoke the subs by setting a variable to do so in the form you are submitting: 
...
<input type="hidden" name="op" value="some_operation">
...

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and in your script, you'll want to do something like this 
... #(generic code / beginning of HTML dumped here)

&$op();

... #(generic code / end of HTML dumped here)

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of course, its possible that someone playing with your form could execute subs that you'd rather they not, so I suggest creating an array, with the names of subs that are "safe" to run: example: 
@safesubs = ("this_sub", "that_sub", "other_sub");
$ok = 0; #op is not okay to run until we say so ;-)
foreach (@safesubs) {
    if($op eq $_) {
        $ok = 1; #if the op is safe, set $ok to true
    }
}

if($ok) {
    &$op();
} else {
    die("The op variable does not contain a valid definition");
}

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Or something along those lines. I hold the mindset that a CGI is responsible for accomplishing a certain task, such as dealing with user administration, for instance. That one script should allow me to add, edit, and/or delete users at whim, without calling on other scripts to do the job. Besides, it keeps your cgi-bin a lot cleaner ;-)

I've never claimed to be a Perl God(TM), and any claims to the converse are used fictitiously.

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

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