I've looked over Mason and, yes, it does a heck of a lot that would make my life easier. However, I am unable to install modules, so Mason doesn't much help. I brought it up, but the request was shot down.

It's no trade secret, but let's just assume there is no templating system, but rather a single CGI script that will use the various modules and then dump everything with print statements. As long at the Perl modules return valid HTML in the form of a string, should be good to go.

I have this dummy CGI script and the Perl modules written. Each module is it's own package with a getContent() subroutine that uses __DATA__ to return the HTML. 
use Footer;

my $footer = Footer->new();
print $footer->getContent();

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This approach works, but I'm looking for a more elegant solution, mainly with the indivdual modules as there is a ton of repetition with each module having its own getContent() subroutine. I'm also worried about overlap in any way, if that's possible. Any suggestions?

In reply to Re^4: thoughts on creating modular perl for web application by emilford
in thread thoughts on creating modular perl for web application by emilford

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