NiftyPortal NiftyPortal - hierarchical dynamic site construction framework
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NiftyPortal - hierarchical dynamic site construction framework NiftyPortal is a hierarchical dynamic site construction framework designed for sites (and series of sites) with similar functionality, but widely different designs or looks and feels. The term "similar" is relative; measure is made for overrides of "standard" functionality so that other sites at the same installation can have different code running for different purposes.NiftyPortal is designed to securely factor reused code among as many different sites as possible. It uses a combination of SpeedyCGI (available on CPAN) and Template Toolkit (also on CPAN) to achieve fast response times, while still maintaining a great deal of flexibility for all maintainers.You might find NiftyPortal useful if you: find yourself creating complex systems of CGI scripts to run your site, and worry more and more about factoring code that's re-used, like some of PHP's features, but have a large amount of Perl code you need to maintain, have out-grown SSI, are creating a large number of sites that need to share code in the back end (such as for a common authentication routine), are creating "branded" sites with similar functionality, but different templates or design, along with the ability to override specific templates as necessary, need to integrate other Perl code into your site easily and effectively (you're hacking pre-existing forum software), think SlashCode is too large, complex, or slow, you've rolled your own quasi-templating system, but now need more flexibility, can't use mod_perl, or just prefer not to operate within its restrictions have used Template Toolkit before, but want to combine true Perl with it easily and in an organized fashion.Requirements: You'll need the following Perl modules installed:DBI - database moduleDBD::mysql - database driverCGI::Minimal - for lightweight CGI form processingCGI::Carp - for nice CGI error messagesCGI::SpeedyCGI - runs perl persistentlyTemplate - the Template Toolkit systemTime::HiRes - used in benchmarkingDigest::MD5 - for password encrpytionClone - data manipulationConfig::Tiny - configuration file parsingHTTP::Lite - a lightweight alternative to LWPMail::Sendmail - easy outgoing mail handlingXML::Simple - used by web servicesData::Dumper - for debugging outputCGI::PathInfo - an alternate query parser.

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