I am first and foremost a perl coder, but like many, also code in PHP for client work, especially web apps.

I am finding that I am duplicating a lot of my projects in the two languages, but using different paradigms (e.g. for handling cgi input and session data) or functions.

What I would like to do is start to code my Perl in a way which is structured more like PHP, so that I a) am keeping one paradigm in my head b) can more quickly port over scripts from one to the other

Specifically, I am asking if people could advise how you might do the following in perl?

1) Reproduce the functionality of $_SESSION, $_GET etc. e.g. by wrapping up the param() method of CGI.pm, a session library?

2) Templating library that is similar to PHP I am used to mixing my code and HTML in the PHP convention. e.g. i

<h1>HTML Code here</h1>
<?
 print "Hello World\b";
?>

Can anybody advise on which perl templating engine (and possibly configuration) will allow me to code similarly?

3) PHP function library Anybody know of a library for perl which reproduces a lot of the php inbuilt functions?