Re: [cgiapp] Global configuration

[John Lawton <suppressed>]

--- Mark Stosberg <suppressed> wrote:
> 
> > In the recent best practices document that Mark started, he
> mentions
> > configuration information that is global, i.e. is needed by more
> than
> > one cgi script. What CPAN configuration modules are people using in
> > their CGI::Apps?
> 
> John,
> 
> I think the optimal answer here depends on what kind of user you are
> targeting to configure the application.

Good point. In many cases using raw Perl makes perfect sense. I'd also
like a programming interface to make it possible to update
configuration parameters from a web-based user interface.

-john

> 
> I use a simple ".pm" module that contains regular Perl with comments.
> This works great for me. Usually I'm just defining "key = value"
> relations in a %CFG hash. However, in a few cases where I want to do
> something more complicated, I have the full power of Perl to use, and
> I
> know the syntax already. :)
> 
> Sometimes I dream of having a web-based configuration tool for
> applications, which could necessitate having some other config file
> format, or perhaps storing everything in a database (except the
> databse
> connection options...).
> 
>   -mark
> 
> http://mark.stosberg.com/
> 
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