I've got an online form!

To avoid code and HTML mixage, I'm trying desperately to keep everything separate: the HTML is read from a file on disk, mixed around, then displayed to the user after some Perl magic.

I plan to use HTML::Defaultify to choose sensible defaults in the form.
I plan to use HTML::FillInForm to keep the form sticky.

Everything looks good so far - but how can I initially populate the form with values (based on the person using the form)?

Ideally I'd like to do something like:

my $html = &get_html();
my $pop = new Form::Populator;

if (! $cgi->param('validate') )
{
   my $new_html = $pop->populate(
      computers => qw/ abra cada bra /,
      staff => qw/ alice bob chris /
   )
}

# $html now contains a nice bit of HTML that has had
# values added to the list boxes with name "computers"
# and "staff".

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I'd really rather avoid a full blown template solution like the Template Toolkit.

Any ideas? THANKS!

In reply to Populating forms by nodata

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