I'm used to write two runmodes for every panel in my application. In your case, they would be
login and
login_update. Given a method
redirect to set the appropriate headers, the code could be the following (not-so-pseudo-code):
# Does nothing except printing the form.
# Using sessions you can pass to it an error_message,
# for example.
#
sub login
+
{
my $self = shift;
+
my $tmpl = $self->load_tmpl( 'login' );
+
return $tmpl->output();
+
}
sub login_update
+
{
my $self = shift;
+
my $q = $self->query;
# Fetch username and password from the form
#
if ( PASSWORD CORRECT ) {
$self->redirect( { rm => 'first_panel' } );
}
else {
# It could store some useful info in a session,
# for example the error message.
#
$self->redirect( { rm => 'login' } );
}
return;
}
I use this technique a lot, and it has proven its flexibility and
efficiency.