Publisher review:Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an object-oriented style. Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an object-oriented style. You can also take advantage of all the usual Perl modules, (including DBI for database access) use their functionality and easily include their output in your web pages. Additionaly Embperl support including XML, XSLT tranformations and a lot of other sources formats.
Embperl has several features which are especially useful for creating HTML, including dynamic tables, form field processing and validation, URL escaping/unescaping, session handling, and more. Embperl is a server-side tool, which means that it's browser-independent. It can run in various ways: under mod_perl, as a CGI script, or offline.
For database access, there is a module called DBIx::Recordset, which works well together with Embperl and simplifies creating web pages with database content. For the beginner it's any easy to setup and use way of embedding Perl code in HTML pages.FEATURES
- Embperl facilitates embedding Perl code into HTML/XML or other text documents. Perl code is evaluated at the server side and the result is sent to the browser. All available Perl modules can be used without any restriction.
- Allows to build Web sites out of small reusable components in an object-oriented way. Components can call and/or embed each other and inherit from other objects.
- Standard layout of a web-site site can be defined once and the content can be dynamically generated by these components based on the uri. The documents need only contain the variable portions but not the common items which define the layout like headers/footers or navigation bars which normally form the template. Also these common elements can be overwritten in each sub-directory.
- Embperl 2.0 thus facilitates separating code, layout and creating MVC (Model-View-Controller) applications. Control logic can be moved into an application object, which controls further execution of the request, while the actual pages are containing the display code. Simple applications can still embed all the code in the pages.
- Source-code for each component can come from a different source, for eg. from file, memory or sub-request which allows to act on the output from another Apache application like PHP, JSP, CGI Script etc.
- Each component can be in a different source format (e.g. HTML, WML, XML, POD, ...) and can be transformed to other output formats, say by using via XSLT.
- Supports one or more scripting syntax using Embperl, ASP, Text, Perl and others.
- Output generation is divided into small steps where each is processed by a plugable provider. The interaction of the providers can be individually configured for each component via recipes.
- Supports caching of intermediate results and output.
- Embperl encompasses several features that ease the task of dynamic web-site content generation, including dynamic-tables, form-field-processing, escaping/unescaping, etc.
- Contains a module for easy form input validation, which is able to validate user input at the server side and on the client side by one definition of rules.
- Handles per-user and per-module persistent session requiring only storage and retrieval of the session data from a special hash.
- UTF-8 Support (honours Perl's internal UTF-8 flag during in- and output)
- Offers flexible configuration options to suite individual tastes and needs.
- Fully integrated into Apache and mod_perl to acheive the best performance. Can also run as a free standing CGI-script, off-line or can be called from another Perl program.
- The Perl module DBIx::Recordset offers high level, easy to use database access for Embperl.
- Embperl::Mail enables redirecting the result output to a mail-recipient.
- Embperl::Inline allows to embedd Embperl code in normal Perl code
Embperl 2.002000 is a Perl script for Modules scripts design by Gerald Richter.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Embperl gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in an object-oriented style.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Embperl 2.002000 script details 
