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As a result of a recent node Populating options in html select I decided to start working on module that would beside filling form fields like existing modules do (such as HTML::FillInForm) also "fill" <select> </select> with possible options.

At this point it's pretty much just a concept and I'm "playing" around by sub classing HTML::Parser as I have no previous experience with any kind of parsing (excluding basic regexps).

At first I thought to subclass the HTML::FillInForm and add just an option to do what I want. But after looking at it's code, I realised that most work is done in one method (fill) so ... I'll just do it from scratch.

I was thinking to make it very simple to be used: 

use HTML::FormFill;

print HTML::FormFill->fill(html    => $html,
                           fields  => $hashref,
                           target  => 'form_name',
                           selects => {select1 => $AoH_ref,
                                       select2 => $Aoh_ref});

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Of course, $AoH_ref's will most likely come from DB or something like that. Or to provide easy DBI integration, it could accept output of fetchall_arrayref() ? Fields $hashref could come from CGI's Vars method, DBI's fetchrow_hashref() ... or whatever. Html could be a string or reference to string ...etc.

Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.

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In reply to RFC: HTML::FormFill - but this one should prefill options in selects. by techcode

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