Advice on coding Perl to work like PHP
- by user272273
I am first and foremost a perl coder, but like many, also code in PHP for client work, especially web apps.
I am finding that I am duplicating a lot of my projects in the two languages, but using different paradigms (e.g. for handling cgi input and session data) or functions.
What I would like to do is start to code my Perl in a way which is structured more like PHP, so that I
a) am keeping one paradigm in my head
b) can more quickly port over scripts from one to the other
Specifically, I am asking if people could advise how you might do the following in perl?
1) Reproduce the functionality of $_SESSION, $_GET etc.
e.g. by wrapping up the param() method of CGI.pm, a session library?
2) Templating library that is similar to PHP
I am used to mixing my code and HTML in the PHP convention. e.g.
i
<h1>HTML Code here</h1>
<?
print "Hello World\b";
?>
Can anybody advise on which perl templating engine (and possibly configuration) will allow me to code similarly?
3) PHP function library
Anybody know of a library for perl which reproduces a lot of the php inbuilt functions?
