I'm looking for feedback on a small working "core" of an application and tutorial that I recently wrote. The tutorial is here: http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dd363fg9_77gb4hdh7b&revision=_latest The code is on sourceforge: http://perlmvccgiapp.sourceforge.net/ as is a working demo (don't expect much): http://perlmvccgiapp.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/app1/main.cgi
The document discusses how I used CGI::Application and its associated Plugin modules to create a reusable MVC (Model-View-Controller) object-oriented "starter" application that is suitable for a CGI environment. It includes: - user authentication and management: create account, edit account, sign in, sign out, forgot password - session management, including expiry - page redirection - data/form validation - simple (error) logging - status message facility - HTML templates - clean MFC separation, including a base class for database model classes and a singleton for sharing the $dbh - a suggested directory layout - a "comparison" table to Titanium It uses a MySQL backend. I try to present everything that someone new to CGI::App will need: Perl code, SQL statements, database table structures, module install script, session expiry script, config file, CSS file, etc. -- 20+ files in all. I also discuss each feature a bit (and why you'll need it) as well as some MVC concepts and OO design principles along the way. I am particularly interested to know if you think - the level of detail is sufficient - the base set of functionality would be useful to most projects - what features you think are missing (but note that I'm targeting the most popular/needed features) -- this is of course subjective. I also don't want the tutorial to get too much larger! The goal of the project is to give people a working app that they can imemdiately play with and extend, and has good documentation. -- Mark ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
