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copied!<p>There are a lot of possibilities, depending on what you want to do. </p> <p>If you want to take advantage of the speed of mod_perl, but the simplicity of vanilla CGI, check out the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~gozer/mod_perl-2.0.4/docs/api/ModPerl/Registry.pod" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Modperl::Registry</a> distribution from CPAN. This will allow you to run your plain CGI scripts largely unaltered.</p> <p>In terms of frameworks, I'm a big fan of <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application/lib/CGI/Application.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CGI::Application</a>. It provides a very simple inheritance-based framework that handles most everything a web application will need to do, giving you the freedom to design your application the way you like. A simple app can be done in a monolithic fashion; a more complex one can use a full-fledged <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MVC</a> design. Like Perl in general, CGI-App gives you a lot of options and generally stays out of your way. </p> <p>CGI-App supports the excellent <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/HTML-Template-2.9/Template.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTML::Template</a> module by default, and has plugins for other templating systems such as the spectacular <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.20/lib/Template.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Template Toolkit</a>. There are also a plethora of <a href="http://cgi-app.org/index.cgi?Plugins" rel="nofollow noreferrer">plugins</a> for other purposes.</p> <p>If you want more work done for you, check out <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Catalyst</a>. This way of doing things may be more familiar if you've used Ruby on Rails. </p> <p>Other popular web-app frameworks include <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Jifty-0.80408/lib/Jifty.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jifty</a> and <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~merlyn/CGI-Prototype-0.9053/lib/CGI/Prototype.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CGI::Prototype</a>, written by Randal Schwartz, which is based on the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~teverett/Class-Prototyped-1.11/lib/Class/Prototyped.pm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Class::Prototyped</a> object framework.</p>

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