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Hi all.

I am starting another project and I wish to know the best method of =
creating a web page via Perl. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here. =
The perl script must generate plain 4.0 HTML code. I am not after any =
bells or whistles on the page.

The Perl script will go through all my Audio books and group them by =
author, title and titles in series. I was thinking a table with the =
below columns:

Author, Series, Title, stream, category and rating. Rating is Adult, =
Junior, etc. Category is SiFi, thriller, etc.

If the person clicks on the title, a brief description would pop-up. =
This would be a text file that it would show. Stream it would send the =
audio directly to the browser.

So is there any simple modules that would achieve this? I am not after a =
complex tool like the Ruby Rail project.

the info would come from the directory structure of the audio books. I =
would run the script and it would build the web pages. So the HTML pages =
would be semi-static.

Ideas and thoughts would be welcomed

Sean
If they click on the
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Hi Sean,

On Saturday 23 Apr 2011 11:14:46 Sean Murphy wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I am starting another project and I wish to know the best method of
> creating a web page via Perl. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here. The
> perl script must generate plain 4.0 HTML code. I am not after any bells or
> whistles on the page.
>
> The Perl script will go through all my Audio books and group them by
> author, title and titles in series. I was thinking a table with the below
> columns:
>
> Author, Series, Title, stream, category and rating. Rating is Adult,
> Junior, etc. Category is SiFi, thriller, etc.
>
> If the person clicks on the title, a brief description would pop-up. This
> would be a text file that it would show. Stream it would send the audio
> directly to the browser.
>
> So is there any simple modules that would achieve this? I am not after a
> complex tool like the Ruby Rail project.
>
> the info would come from the directory structure of the audio books. I
> would run the script and it would build the web pages. So the HTML pages
> would be semi-static.
>
> Ideas and thoughts would be welcomed
>

There are several solutions:

1. Template Toolkit:

http://perl-begin.org/uses/text-generation/#template-toolkit

The end-all and be-all of templating systems for Perl. Very powerful, but a=

little quirky.

2. You can also output XML and generate HTML (or XHTML) from it using XSLT.
=ABAll problems in computer science can be solved by another level of
indirection;=BB -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirection

3. Also see the other resources about text-generation on the link, and if
you're interested in more complex directory structures, then look at IO::Al=
l (
http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-All/ ) and similar modules.

=2D----

Some of these tools are complex and a bit error-prone, but they could be ta=
med
(for example using http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Stash-AutoEscaping/=
).
As I recently talked with a friend, I think that minimalist tools (i.e: one=
s
that are kept minimal and useless on purpose) are not something we like, an=
d
that it's important that a tool will have a low-barrier for entry, and then=

have many dark corners, which users can find if they want that. But most
programmers and power users want and need a lot of features.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

=2D-
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:46 +1000, Sean Murphy wrote:
>
> I am starting another project and I wish to know the best method of
> creating a web page via Perl. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here.
> The perl script must generate plain 4.0 HTML code. I am not after any
> bells or whistles on the page.
>
> The Perl script will go through all my Audio books and group them by
> author, title and titles in series. I was thinking a table with the
> below columns:
>
> Author, Series, Title, stream, category and rating. Rating is Adult,
> Junior, etc. Category is SiFi, thriller, etc.
>
> If the person clicks on the title, a brief description would pop-up.
> This would be a text file that it would show. Stream it would send the
> audio directly to the browser.

I find HTML::Template a good solution for the beginner who knows HTML.
The Template Toolkit is awesome in its power but takes longer to learn
for basic jobs like what you describe. If and when you learn the
Template Toolkit for some other reason then you're likely to use it for
everything including tasks like this one.

The CGI.pm module can generate HTML via functions or methods with the
same names as the elements. It was very popular at one time although
templating makes a lot more sense.

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On 11-04-23 09:09 AM, Peter Scott wrote:
> It was very popular at one time although
> templating makes a lot more sense.

It was very popular at one time because at one time, it was all there
was. :)


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On 04/23/2011 01:14 AM, Sean Murphy wrote:
> The perl script must generate plain 4.0 HTML code. I am not after any
bells or whistles on the page.
> The Perl script will go through all my Audio books and group them by
author, title and titles in series. I was thinking a table with the
below columns:
> Author, Series, Title, stream, category and rating. Rating is Adult,
Junior, etc. Category is SiFi, thriller, etc.
> If the person clicks on the title, a brief description would pop-up.
This would be a text file that it would show. Stream it would send the
audio directly to the browser.
> the info would come from the directory structure of the audio books.
I would run the script and it would build the web pages. So the HTML
pages would be semi-static.

Compiled static HTML sites have distinct advantages, but if the site is
low-bandwidth (e.g. personal/ LAN use) and/or you're library isn't too
big, you might be able to accomplish your goal with a single CGI script.
One advantage of a purely dynamic site is that you can create/ update/
delete data in the back end via whatever means and the current
information will automagically appear via the front-end.


HTH,

David

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