It's not being developed by a team, just by me. I agree with your recommendation of using Template Toolkit. I'm using it already and it rocks! I think it's saved me a lot of time, and I think the end product will be a lot more flexible because of TT.

I like your idea about using an application framework, but I don't want to use a commercial packages, because I'm hoping I'll be able to release this as Free Software eventually.

Your comment on the value of the application framework hit the nail pretty much on the head though. I've written small cgi scripts before, but this program will have lots of screens and some multi-step, multi-screen user operations. I'm getting kind of bogged down in the user/session management.

I haven't found an open source application framework I feel comfortable with so far, but there are a several posted in this thread that I haven't heard of. I'll look at them and see if I like them. If nothing else, at least maybe I can get some inspiration! Using existing modules/frameworks is almost always a good idea (IMHO), but if I can't find one the works exactly for me, I'd rather re-write the wheel than completely re-invent it from scratch!

Thanks for your help and recommendations!

In reply to Re: Re: Good book on programming large CGI applications? by rom_de_plume
in thread Good book on programming large CGI applications? by rom_de_plume

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