When should I use Perl CGI instead of PHP (or vice versa)?

Question

For hobby purposes, I have a shared space on a hosting server that is providing, as many of them are, both PHP and Perl CGI. I have read on several places that CGI scripts

Answer 1

Here is a simple "hello world" example that runs under CGI using the Squatting web microframework:

use strict;
use warnings;

{
    package MyApp;
    use base 'Squatting';
    use base 'Squatting::On::CGI';
}

{ 
    package MyApp::Controllers;
    use Squatting ':controllers';

    our @C = (
        C(
            Index => [ '/' ],
            get   => sub { 
                my ( $self ) = @_;
                my $v = $self->v;
                $v->{say} = 'hello world!';
                $self->render( 'hello' );
            },
        ),
    );
}

{
    package MyApp::Views;
    use Squatting ':views';
    use HTML::AsSubs;

    our @V = (
        V(  'html',

            layout => sub { 
                my ( $self, $v, @yield ) = @_;
                html (
                    head ( title( 'My CGI App' ) ),
                    body ( @yield ),
                )->as_HTML;
            },

            hello => sub {
                my ( $self, $v ) = @_;
                p ( $v->{say} );
            },
        ),
    );
}

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;
MyApp->init;
MyApp->relocate('/cgi-bin/myapp.cgi');
MyApp->cgi($q);

Save as "myapp.cgi" and place in your cgi-bin.