Version 2.4 of CGI::Application is now available via CPAN!
Download site for CGI::Application:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JE/JERLBAUM/
CHANGES SINCE VERSION 2.1:
- Added new module CGI::Application::Mailform as both an
example of how to use CGI::Application and a useful
(albeit simple) reusable web-based application.
- CGI::Application::Mailform allows the contents of
data submitted through HTML forms to be easily sent
via email to a specified recipient. This application
is intended to be very easy to reuse, yet secure
and functional enough to replace some of the most
onerous mailform scripts which have been floating
around the Internet for ages.
- Added cgiapp_prerun() hook, for adding global behaviors
before the run-mode method is called. The cgiapp_prerun()
gets the name of the run-mode as a parameter. This would
allow the user to perform some action based on the
current run-mode.
- Fixed minor bug in build system for older Perl versions.
- Modified tmpl_path() to propagate to HTML::Template's PATH
parameter. This provides much more useful and intuitive
behavior. Thanks to Sam Tregar for the patch!
- Added prerun_mode() method to allow the run-mode to be
dynamically changed inside the cgiapp_prerun() method.
Thanks to Steve Comrie for the suggestion of using a
method call for this function. Thanks to many other list
members for further refining this idea.
- Refactored some test cases, general code clean-up.
- Refactored POD a bit to make it less intimidating for
new users.
Read the recent Using CGI::Application article on Perl.com for an
overview of this module and its usage:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/05/cgi.html
CGI::Application is intended to make it easier to create sophisticated,
reusable web-based applications. This module implements a methodology which,
if followed, will make your web software easier to design, easier to
document, easier to write, and easier to evolve.
CGI::Application builds on standard, non-proprietary technologies and
techniques, such as the Common Gateway Interface and Lincoln D. Stein's
excellent CGI.pm module. CGI::Application judiciously avoids employing
technologies and techniques which would bind a developer to any one set
of tools, operating system or web server.
The guiding philosophy behind CGI::Application is that a web-based
application can be organized into a specific set of Run-Modes. Each
Run-Mode is roughly analogous to a single screen (a form, some output, etc).
All the Run-Modes are managed by a single Application Module which is a
Perl module. In your web server's document space there is an Instance
Script which is called by the web server as a CGI (or an Apache::Registry
script if you're using Apache + mod_perl).
CGI::Application is an Object-Oriented Perl module which implements an
Abstract Class. It is not intended that this package be instantiated
directly. Instead, it is intended that your Application Module will be
implemented as a Sub-Class of CGI::Application.
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