I want to store data and read/modify it on my Web server using Perl. I don't need something big and scary like SQL. Are there any modules or even just standard syntax for plaintext files to do this?
I have no idea why most ``content management systems'' aren't written like this. Huge MediaWiki and WordPress sites, I can understand, but you don't need MySQL for your personal web site that gets fifty hits a month.
Flat files and the existing file system work fine for HTML, they work fine for most dynamic sites too.