Re: How to use Perl in web pages?

I just took an interest in html embedded perl and started reading this:

Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

which is free online and you should at least be aware of it.

For sure: do some CGI stuff. You actually do not need to use *any* perl modules at all to do CGI (which is not to say they are not useful). Using the basic "CGI" one will spare you some simple parsing tasks also probably covered by PHP, and provide you with some helper functions as hinted at behind Corion's "curtain" -- but it is not (just to let you know) strictly necessary. CGI just works via <STDIN> and <STDOUT>.

If you want to get your basic perl skills up to snuff I'd very strongly recommend "Intermediate Perl" (Schwartz, foy, Phoenix).

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Re^2: How to use Perl in web pages? by TGI (Parson) on Jun 07, 2009 at 06:32 UTC
Mason is a great tool. But it is complex and it is too easy to fall into the bad habits when learning it. PHP encourages those same bad habits. If kitsune looks at Mason, I would encourage her (him?) to look very closely at discussions of best practices, and think hard about MVC models of application design. Mason is a huge slice of awesome, but the helping is big enough that indigestion may ensue if it is not approached with caution. TGI says moo	[reply]

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Re^2: How to use Perl in web pages?
by TGI (Parson) on Jun 07, 2009 at 06:32 UTC

Mason is a great tool. But it is complex and it is too easy to fall into the bad habits when learning it. PHP encourages those same bad habits.

If kitsune looks at Mason, I would encourage her (him?) to look very closely at discussions of best practices, and think hard about MVC models of application design.

Mason is a huge slice of awesome, but the helping is big enough that indigestion may ensue if it is not approached with caution.

TGI says moo

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