in reply to Different Ways to Do It

You might consider looking into Maypole -- Simon Cozens framework for web-based, database-driven applications. There's a nice article Rapid Web Applications Development with Maypole and Part Two on perl.com that shows how quickly a simple application (in this case a e-commerce site and shopping cart) can be built.

-xdg

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