This depends on how you set up your application, but when I have a web-based application with a database backend, I often use Data::Table for maximum laziness. After performing a database query, you can filter, sort, reformat, etc. and then print the resulting data as an HTML table. There are plenty of options for formatting the HTML table nicely.

A lazy example (based on the module's documentation):

  use Data::Table;
  use DBI;

  my $dbh= DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:test", "test", "")
             or die $DBI::errstr;

  my $minAge = 10;
  my $t = Data::Table::fromSQL
          (
             $dbh,
             "select * from mytable where age >= ?",
             [$minAge],
          );
 
 # Print out an HTML Table.
  print $t->html;
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