What module to use for templates and caching?

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

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Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by jettero (Monsignor) on Jun 05, 2007 at 22:48 UTC
HTML::Template seems to be pretty popular, usually in combination with CGI::Simple. Sounds like you don't really need the second part though, just a Makefile? What I mean is, there's no need to serve the content dynamically if it's not changing very often. So just generate a new HTML file each time the content changes in the database rather than using all that mod_perl power... -Paul	[reply]
Re^2: What module to use for templates and caching? by yucca (Initiate) on Jul 11, 2007 at 17:08 UTC
Thanks Paul. Sorry it took me so long to reply, I was on extended vacation :) The problem with this approach is that it will require too much disk space. We will have tens of thousands of static pages then and many of them are accessed quite rarely, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep them around all the time.	[reply]
Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by Herkum (Parson) on Jun 06, 2007 at 00:16 UTC
Template is a good complete templating system, but it also provides the ability to compile templates. That would help if performance is an issue.	[reply]
Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by Trizor (Pilgrim) on Jun 06, 2007 at 01:21 UTC
Template has been mentioned as a template engine, and templates may be precompiled which is a performance plus. You're not working in mod_perl and the fact that you mentioned NFS makes me think there may be more than one server but Cache or Cache::Cache should be able to put their filecache on the NFS, though NFS becomes a bottleneck if you frequently write to the cache (which defeats the point of the Cache).	[reply]
Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by strat (Canon) on Jun 06, 2007 at 08:58 UTC
I prefer HTML::Template::Compiled from tinita because it is faster than HTML::Template and has more features. Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply]
Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by naikonta (Curate) on Jun 06, 2007 at 15:28 UTC
This article discusses about various templating system along with their merits. Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply]
Re: What module to use for templates and caching? by tinita (Parson) on Jun 06, 2007 at 20:18 UTC
about caching: in the framework i'm developing i have a cache module which allows to use either a file cache as a backend or memcached. the file caching was written by myself, but i'll probably rewrite it with Cache::FileCache. the advantage is that you can use file caching and don't need to set up a memcached server, but as soon as you need to scale your application and have more than one server, you can switch to memcached without changing anything but the configuration.	[reply]