What's the best way to write a Perl CGI application?

Question

Every example I\'ve seen of CGI/Perl basically a bunch of print statements containing HTML, and this doesn\'t seem like the best way to write a CGI app. Is there a better way t

Answer 1

Absolutely (you're probably looking at tutorials from the 90s). You'll want to pick a framework. In Perl-land these are the most popular choices:

• CGI::Application - very lightweight with lots of community plugins
• Catalyst - heavier with more bells and whistles
• Jifty - more magical than the above