Introduction into SPIP - Simple Presentations In Perl

Introduction into the programming of SPIP

I use the CPAN modules

• XML::Simple for reading configuration and sheet files and
• HTML::Template for creating the resulting presentation with help of the template files in the templates directory of SPIP.

Besides them I use the following additional core modules:

• IO::File for handling files,
• Cwd for determining the working directory (there lies the configuration file I have to read),
• FindBin for determining the SPIP directory (there are the templates in the subdirectory templates),
• Hash::Util for locking key sets of hashes,
• File::Basename for determining the basename of filenames with pathes,
• Storable for cloning deep data structures with Storable::dclone,
• and of course the pragmas use strict; and use warnings;