RE: perl based web site in a can type reccomendations?

["David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

debian-user:

Britton Kerin wrote:
> I would like to be able to put together something like what is seen
> on the linksys routers, i.e. tabs for configuring a system, popping
> up help, etc. without having to monkey around with the details of
> html and CSS any more than strictly necessary.  Perl is the lang
> I know so I like it over php or others.  Anyone have a
> recommendation?

It sounds like you want an embedded web server and control panel application for
a product (?).  Those tend to be written in C and compiled into the firmware.


If you have enough computing resources for Apache and mod_perl, there are
numerous Perl web application frameworks.  These range from general-purpose
toolkits to application-specific solutions.  Google for "perl web application
framework" and you'll see what I mean.  You can also put together a set of CPAN
modules to cover the bases -- Apache::Registry, CGI::Application,
HTML::Template, CGI, and DBI work well together.  As they say, "TIMTOWTDI".


Reading the following books helped me:

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/index.html

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/index.html

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlckbk2/index.html

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/index.html

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl2/index.html

    http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/stein/

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldbi/index.html

    http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-book/

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wrapmod/

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/index.html 


I need to read this one:

    http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-perl/


Here are some of my Perl/CGI scripts FWIW:

    http://www.holgerdanske.com/dpchrist/cgi.html


HTH,

David