"Michael Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Robert wrote: > > I am currently building out a reporting system that uses C-A and H-T to > > query some backend databases and then creating reports out of that data. > > Currently I use three files to do this. I use my initial starter (index.pl) > > which calls my app.pm script with all the runmodes and the tmpl files for > > all my templates. I am currently putting all my calls in the .pm file. Is > > there a point where you would split out the .pm file in multiple ones? Or > > does the size of the actual .pm script mean little or nothing in performance > > or other considerations? > > Yes and yes. Size is important for performance if you are running under > normal CGI (and not mod_perl) since your module will need to be compiled > upon each and every request. This means that if it is bloated even > simple requests will need to load the whole thing. Under mod_perl this > isn't an issue since modules are loaded once and then cached. > > Another important issue to face is maintenance. If you split you run > modes into different modules based on their functionality (or on the > data they deal with) it will make the job of finding bugs, adding new > features, etc easier. For instance, all of you code that manages users > (adding new ones, changing passwords, preferences, etc) should be in one > module and code that manages a shopping cart should be in another > (assuming your app has a shopping cart and users). > > HTH, > I am running it under CGI. So far it is just data queries. A question I have then is how to I call the other modules? Do I just chain them?
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