personalization with Perl

personalized pages

[eveningwalk]

I'm looking for a personalization engine in Perl - which allows me to customize pages based on user preferences. Any suggestions?

TIA

[jatar_k]

Have you tried script directories or the search engine of your choice for options?

or does anyone have any suggestions?

I would think that this type of thing would be a more custom solution as then you could decide what you would like to let them have control over. It would need to possibly be part of every page on the site as well which may mean it gets more into a CMS system.

[eveningwalk]

There will be only one personalized page - which is the front/home/index page. None of the inside pages will be personalized and in fact, should not be. So I really don't need a CMS system. And yes, I did look at HotScripts and CGI Resource Index. Any suggestions?

[jeremy goodrich]

Well, the easy way to do it would be to have them create a login - then cookie them, and have them select their pref's.

Store those in a cookie, and serve the content around the cookie(s) data...should do the trick.

Or you can just cookie them after the select their options, and if they already have the 'personal prefs' cookie the next time they visit, simply deliver the page based on that data.

Though with the later and no login, you might experience a number of users having to 'repersonalize' their page...hope this helps.

[eveningwalk]

Thanks jatar and Jeremy. Does anyone know of a Perl book which has a good example of personalization/ personalizing a page based on user preferences?