Re: website development and maintenance, using Perl. Please help!

Andrew wrote:

> Is there a Perl/OSS alternative to ColdFusion? What is the best way to
> "templatize" web-page creation, with non-redundant (yet, possibly,
> user-identity-sensitive) header/footer/navigation bars/etc.?
> (Server-side includes? Or is that yesteryear?) Being more or less
> comfortable with database backends (rectangular tables as well as
> trees), I think I can build any data component we would need myself, to
> plug into whatever is suggested. I also have enough web tools for
> web-based database maintenance (by others)... so, essentially, what's
> missing, is efficient maintenance of static and quasi-static
> (template-merged) web pages, by non-programmers.


You should use mod_perl rather than plain old cgi/perl if the site is likely
to get some reasonable traffic.

I still use SSI's for headers, footer and menus. Can't think of any reason
not to.


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