I can't believe no one has mentioned CGI::Formbuilder yet:

• CGI::Formbuilder Home Page
• CGI::Formbuilder in CPAN

I believe that Nathan Wiger has scratched this itch particularly well, making it very straight forward to do complicated things with CGI forms very simply.

For posperity here is the SYNOPSYS from the documentation

    use CGI::FormBuilder;

    # Let's assume we did a DBI query to get existing values
    my $dbval = $sth->fetchrow_hashref;

    my $form = CGI::FormBuilder->new(
                    method => 'POST',
                    fields => [qw/name email phone gender/],
                    values => $dbval,
                    validate => { email => 'EMAIL', phone => 'PHONE' }
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                    required => 'ALL',
                    font => 'arial,helvetica',
               );

    # Change gender field to have options
    $form->field(name => 'gender', options => [qw/Male Female/]);

    if ($form->submitted && $form->validate) {
        my $fields = $form->field;    # get form fields as hashref

        # Do something to update your data (you would write this)
        do_data_update($fields->{name}, $fields->{email},
                       $fields->{phone}, $fields->{gender});

        # Show confirmation screen
        print $form->confirm(header => 1);

        # Email the person a brief confirmation
        $form->mailconfirm(to => $fields->{email});

    } else {
        # Print out the form
        print $form->render(header => 1);
    }
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Clayton aka "Tex"