Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread Richard Dice
John: Thanks for chiming in here. I hope that you enjoyed the talk I gave at Toronto.pm a few months ago on this topic and that it inspired you to come out for some more. :-) Excellent point. However (as a one time publisher! and sometime tech writer) it is necessary to be very clear as to

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread John Day
At 03:58 PM 1/25/2004 -0500, Richard Dice wrote: John: Thanks for chiming in here. I hope that you enjoyed the talk I gave at Toronto.pm a few months ago on this topic and that it inspired you to come out for some more. :-) Excellent point. However (as a one time publisher! and sometime tech

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread Richard Dice
Regarding my suggestion that Class::DBI is preferable to raw SQL DBI in a large scale complicated web app project, Sam said: I honestly couldn't disagree more. [deletia] Class::DBI could indeed be underpowered to handle the kind of complicated cases that you describe. [ Could Tangram be the

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread Sam Tregar
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Richard Dice wrote: I honestly couldn't disagree more. [deletia] Class::DBI could indeed be underpowered to handle the kind of complicated cases that you describe. [ Could Tangram be the answer there, though? It has much more evolved object relationship mapping

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread Cees Hek
Sam Tregar wrote: That could be. My evaluation was necessarily cursory. I've never actually used any of the modules I so casually discarded. Well, you probably realized very quickly that Class::DBI doesn't really work well when using HTML::Template (which you are using for obvious reasons). [

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Writing the CGI::Application book

2004-01-25 Thread Sam Tregar
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Cees Hek wrote: Did you know you can do the same thing in just a few lines of Perl code? And those lines will be a lot easier to debug and maintain later (see reference to my cursing colleague for proof!). You can get the data in a few lines of code, but you can't

[cgiapp] generating tables using foreach

2004-01-25 Thread smrtalec
I am trying to scavange a example script I found on the web. The subroutine is below. Basically I want to extract data from a sql db then generate a table of values on the fly. The script below keeps generating a malformed header error sub gen_table { my $array_ref=query_data('%Ave%');

RE: [cgiapp] generating tables using foreach

2004-01-25 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
smrtalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I am trying to scavange a example script I found on the web. [snip] Wrong mailing list. This list is for discussing the CGI::Application module. Try the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Head Bottle Washer, Clarkson Energy