comment on

Can you provide us with some samples of documents you have that work (seamlessly?) for both web service and command-line use?

I never claimed seamlessly :) What I meant was that any CGI script using CGI.pm should be able to be run from the commandline. For large sites, I currently use Text::Template to import/interpret templates (much like HTML::Template, etc), but I write the resulting HTML to flat files that the webserver serves. (even mod_perl has problems hitting the speed of flat HTML). With flat files holding content, I can manipulate the pages with scripts and other *nix tools such as grep, ispell, etc.

Of course, this prevents me from having truly user-specific dynamic pages, so I write any of those with CGI perl scripts. When those scripts become large portions of the site, mod_perl is clearly a better solution. But it's a different mindset.

Tom Christiansen floated a paper across Usenet awhile back that you should try to get if possible, named "GUIs Considered Harmful".

I'll look for it, thanks

In reply to RE: Having Perl scripts work with and without a web browser by swiftone
in thread Combining PHP and Perl by rodry

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


P is for Practical
	PerlMonks