dear monks,

i'm trying to find a suitable module for generating/processing HTML forms in a mod_perl/HTML::Mason environment, and i found a lot...so much in fact that i'm stuck... heeelllppp :-}

here's a list of some modules i've found on CPAN, actually i only tried CGI::FormBuilder and HTML::FormEngine.

CGI::FormBuilder seems to be the only one permitting automatic generation of javascript code for validation of user input, but i didn't manage to make it work in HTML::Mason :-{

HTML::FormEngine seems pretty neat but i didn't test it intensively,

so if someone has good/bad experience with one|some of this modules, or any advice at all, it will be greatly appreciated.

thanks by advance,

CGI::Form
CGI::FormMagick
CGI::FormBuilder
CGI::QuickForm
HTML::FormTemplate
HTML::FillnForm
HTML::FormEngine
WWW::Form

Petruchio Edit: Sat Aug 30 07:02:36 UTC 2003 - changed unclosed left bracket to forward slash, to correct markup breakage

In reply to HTML form generation and processing by Anonymous Monk

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