Version 2.1 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 2.0: - The param() method has been extended to allow multiple parameters to be set at one time, via a hash (or hashref). - Fixed bug in run() method where a null-string run-mode would be considered valid. A zero-length run-mode will now result in the start_mode() being called. (Thanks to Mark Stosberg for the two preceding ideas!) - The run_mode() method now may be called a subsequent time to amend the list of run-modes. 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. If you have any questions, comments, bug reports or feature suggestions, post them to the support mailing list! To join the mailing list, simply send a blank message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Jesse Erlbaum ....................... CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ............. Vanguard Media v: 212.242.5317 x115 ...... New York City +-+-+-+-+-+- http://www.vm.com/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+
