•Re: Generalising Forms from CGI.pm

[merlyn]

Maybe the code in my column on handling multiple page forms will be useful as a starting point.

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[Cody Pendant]

Thanks merlyn, that's just the kind of thing I was aiming for (though I don't need more than one page).

Just for the benefit of other monks, merlyn's column includes this:

sub DEFAULT_FIELD { textfield(shift, "", 60) }

as the way fields are produced unless specifically over-ridden, and the tables are produced like this:

print table({ Border => 1, Cellpadding => 5 },
    map { Tr(
        th($_->[1]),
        td(($_->[2] || \&DEFAULT_FIELD)->($_->[0]))
    )} @info
);

where the details of the form are in the @info array.

Update: you know what's occurring to me? The details of the form (arrays of arrays for the most part) could easily be stored in XML -- I'm sure if the column were written today that might have come up.
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