Modules Useful in combination with CGI::Application

There are a number of plugins on this page (e.g., C:A:P:Session) that should be on the Plugins page instead. This page is intended to list other modules that are NOT C:A:Plugins.

Database/Persistence

Articles

• Comparison of Perl Object Oriented Persistence Modules by Dave Rolsky, et al., on Sourceforge
• Separating the database

Modules

• DBIx::Simple, an excellent alternative to using DBI directly.
• Class::DBI A popular database abstraction layer. Has a wiki knowledgebase and a presentation slides
• DBIx-Recordset DBI wrapper recommended by p5ee.
• DBIx::Abstract by Andrew Turner
• SQL::Abstract by Nathan Wiger: Similar to be DBIx::Abstract. However, it doesn't require a database handle and can provide better performance than DBIx::Abstract in some cases.
• SQL::Interp - Similar to DBIx::Abstract and SQL::Abstract, but with a simple and flexible approach to complex SQL generation.

Session Handling

• CGI::Application::Plugin::Session Integrates with CGI::Session . (example)

Form Validation

• CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM Integrates with Data::FormValidator

AJAX

• CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype
• CGI::Ajax - here is an example that processes changed fields without submitting and re-drawing the form
• CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON - this plugin makes it easy to send json-formatted data back to your client-side JavaScript

Note that although CAP::HTMLPrototype or CGI::Ajax might be useful to get you started with AJAX, you don't need to use them.

Graphics

• CGI::Application::GDGraph Ties together CGI::App with GDgraph. There's also a presentation about it available.

Page Generation

• Petal - TAL for Perl
• HTML::FillInForm - Populate HTML forms with query data. It's used behind the scenes in the ValidateRM plugin

Logging

• CGI::Application::Plugin::LogDispatch - integration with Log::Dispatch
• Log::Log4Perl - log errors in runtime smartly (and retire your debugger)

Internationalization

• CGI::Application::Plugin::I18N - integration with Locale::Maketext::Simple

Other Modules

Some are recommended by p5ee.

• File::Temp – Make temporary filename (std distro)
• CGI::FormBuilder – Generate and process stateful forms.
• Config::IniFiles .INI= style configuration files with sections
• XML::Simple – simple XML in/out (like config files).
• XSL - the Extensible Stylesheet Language

See Also

• Plugins
• Comparison of templating systems used with C::A