[oak perl] HTML::Embperl vs HTML::Mason
David Fetter
david at fetter.org
Mon Feb 14 16:07:57 PST 2005
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:10:24PM -0800, Patrick Killelea wrote:
> Hello Perlmongers,
> I'm about to start work on a new website and I need all the usual stuff:
>
> form handling
> session tracking
> page templates
>
> From a bit of research, I see I can do this with either HTML::Embperl,
> which does sessions, or with Apache::Session + HTML::Mason (Mason
> doesn't do sessions itself).
>
> I did a quick Google search on each and see these hits:
>
> 24500 HTML::Embperl
> 52400 HTML::Mason
>
> Maybe Mason is much more popular, but I really need the session tracking
> for logins. Which do you think is better? Or is there some other
> perl+Apache option for all this?
Just MNSHO here, but it seems to me that HTML::Mason actively
discourages people from keeping their presentation logic separate from
their business logic. To me, this is a Bad Thing(TM). In re: session
tracking, I suppose it depends on just what kind of session tracking
you'd like to do. A thing called memcached can help scale session
tracking to something gigantic.
http://www.danga.com/memcached/
You might consider Template::Toolkit, too.
http://template-toolkit.org/
Cheers,
D
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