knoebi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Morning Fellow Monks,
I'am maintaing a rather small website for a club i'am in. It's written completly in php at the moment using XOOPS http://www.xoops.org, which is pretty easy to maintain. But downloading new modules isn't that easy, there is a installation routine but no CPANPLUS, so it's a hassle to find the right module.
My preferred language is Perl, so I was looking arround to find a Perl Module for building a community site, but i didn't found anything which would have half of the features of XOOPS (integrated UserManagement, Discussions, Comment System, PhotoGallery (based on gallery...) and so on) . Does anybody know a module like this? I would be really pleased to use Perl on this project aswell.
Thanky you for your time.
knoebi

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Re: Perl Module for a community site?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2004 at 23:37 UTC

    There's also slashcode. I think that slashcode and Everything are pretty big code bases so they can be intimidating and maybe like buying the bulk size when you really just want the single packet.

    I'm not aware of any single packet solutions in perl but it's possible to develop a decent community site (with all the things that means; DBs, sessions, email notifications, login, posts, threaded comments, sidebar stats/menus) from scratch in about a month if you know how all the parts work already. Possible b/c you've really got all the parts basically complete (DBI, or better still, Class::DBI, any Session module, MIME::Lite, Template or one of the others, etc) and you're just assembling the parts into your own schematic. That, of course, can become an albatross if not done carefully but it's a great learning experience if it's not for a bank or something. :)

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Re: Perl Module for a community site?
by jweed (Chaplain) on Oct 17, 2004 at 22:04 UTC
    Well, you should check out Everything, which runs Perlmonks. Written in Perl, and it's relatively well respected as a community interface. Not precisely a module, but it might do what you want.



    Code is (almost) always untested.
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      it's relatively well respected as a community interface.

      And I'm sure that's why so many sites have adopted it.

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Re: Perl Module for a community site?
by perrin (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2004 at 16:39 UTC
    You may be able to find something on sourceforge or freshmeat, but in general this is a difference in mindset between Perl and PHP developers: PHP devs build a lot of finished apps that are immediately useful if they are close enough to what you wanted, while Perl people build a lot of reusable modules that can be crafted into anything you want but require some time and effort. There are various blogging things for Perl though which may suit your needs.
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Re: Perl Module for a community site?
by Zed_Lopez (Chaplain) on Oct 19, 2004 at 22:40 UTC

    There's FreeFilter, and Scoop, but I don't think they have anything for photos.

    Movable Type has some sort of photo support, but isn't free.

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