Stuff…

It has been a while since writing a CGI frontend to an application… In fact, CGI.pm was the way to do things when I last wrote a CGI application with Perl.

Was having a look at Catalyst and CGI::Application as MVC frameworks.  I decided that the learning curve for Catalyst was a little too great to start with and opted for CGI::Application (Catalyst does look really good though).

Some example code which I have found useful knocking up a test application:

• http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=622071 – Beginners Guide
• http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=516037 *
• http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/cgi-application – Sample Application
• http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd363fg9_77gb4hdh7b

* Found the reply from “Belgarion (Chaplain) on Dec 12, 2005 at 16:38 UTC” useful explaining the order in which CGI::Application (CAP) runs:

1. cgiapp_init()
2. setup()
3. cgiapp_prerun()
4. your selected run mode
5. cgiapp_postrun()
6. teardown()

Links:

• CGI::Application – http://cgi-app.org/
• Catalyst Framework – http://www.catalystframework.org/