Re: Refining the CGI process through structure and templates

[Corion]

I have sought similar and similarly found no all-in-one solution for my stuff. What I did come up with is HTML::FormValidator, which does some HTML form validation, but the validation isn't fully to my taste because I want synchronous JavaScript and Perl validation, or rather, JavaScript regular expression validation to save some round trips, which is fed from the Perl code / a database.

The one thing I've come up with which I like better than your approach is dividing the single pages into unlinked single pages and having an external structure that defines the order of my pages, like so :

my @pageorder = qw(welcome address notify done);

my %pages = {
  "welcome" => \&page_welcome;
  "address" => \&page_address;
  "notify"  => \&page_notify;
  "done"    => \&page_done;
};

my %validators = {
  "welcome" => \&validate_welcome;
  "address" => \&validate_address;
  "notify"  => \&validate_notify;
  "done"    => \&validate_done;
};

but as you see, my layout is still mostly linear. Having some tree-like paths would be interesting and with my approach, the navigation component can be abstracted, but I haven't found a nice and good way to implement the chosen path (calling all possible validators isn't an option in a non-linear graph anymore :-) ).

[markjugg]

I like HTML::FormValidator, too. There is a review of it available.

-mark