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       Embperl::Features - Main features of Embperl 2.0

Main features of Embperl 2.0

       •   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 one 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, e.g.  from file, memory or sub-
           request which allows one 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 achieve 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 one to embedd Embperl code in normal Perl code

perl v5.34.0                                       2022-02-06                                      Features(3pm)