PerlHoo, Part II

Abstract

In Part I of the PerlHoo series, we built a functioning Yahoo-like Web directory in less than 100 lines of code by using file system directories to represent the Web directory hierarchy and comma delimited files (CSVs for short) to store the data. In Part II, we will add the ability for users to suggest a new Web site URL for a particular category in our PerlHoo directory.

If you recall from Part I, we were tasked to build a Web directory that:

1. Organizes information hierarchically
2. Contains information about resources on the Internet
3. Allows users to suggest new resources
4. Allows editors to modify the directory content
5. Is simple to maintain
6. Takes less than 1 week to develop
7. Exports and imports directory content from/to multiple sources

perlhoo.pl View source | Try it This script implements a simple Yahoo-like Web directory using regular directories and comma delimited data files.