[cgi-prototype-users] Notes of moving a site from HTML::Mason to CGI::Prototype

[Terrence Brannon]

I'm happy to say that HTML::Mason has been completely removed from my
personal website:

http://www.livingcosmos.org/

It was fairly easy to write a subclass of CGIP whose render phase took
an HTML file and templated it. I just needed a RewriteRule to push all
html files to the CGIP subclass:

RewriteRule ^/(.+)[.]s?html$ /cgi-bin/lc.cgi/$1.html [PT]

and then I used PATH_TRANSLATED to serve the HTML file:

sub dispatch {
my $self = shift;
my $p = $ENV{PATH_TRANSLATED};
$p =~ s!cgi-bin.+lc.cgi/!!;

$self->reflect->addSlot(file_path => $p);

$self->pkg_for_path($p) ;
}


sub pkg_for_path {
my ($self, $path) = @_;

my $M = Tie::RegexpHash->new;

$M->add( qr,vots/index.html, => 'App::vots' ) ;

if (my $new_page = $M->match($path)) {
eval "require $new_page";
die $@ if $@;

warn 'NP', $new_page;
$new_page;
} else {
return $self;
}

}