Re: Populating forms

While you may want to avoid a "full blown" templating solution like Template Toolkit, there are various "weaker" templating flavours:

Interpolation.pm - a nice hack which can be abused to be a close-to-the-metal templating sytem. It has no niceties like automagic HTML/URL encoding.
HTML::Template - a very simplicistic templating system, geared towards production of HTML. Can escape HTML entities or values for use as URL strings. Comes as one .pm file, which makes installation trivial.
Petal - a nice (x)HTML templating module that, in addition allows method calls on objects through the TAL syntax. It requires its input to be proper XHTML, and it is a bit slow even though it implements caching.
Template Toolkit - a full templating system with its own templating language.

I've listed the templating systems in increasing order of features and I believe you should use HTML::Template, as it is very simplicistic but has enough features to be useful.

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Re: Re: Populating forms by nodata (Initiate) on Mar 29, 2004 at 09:33 UTC
Thanks for that. I've taken another look at HTML::Template, and it seems to be the best option. I think I was hoping more that there would be nice OO interface to add items to forms, but I now realise this would get ugly for anything like radio boxes and check boxes. (List boxes would be easy, just look for `<SELECT NAME="something"></SELECT>` then populate). HTML::Template seems like the best bet. Thanks!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Populating forms by clscott (Friar) on Mar 29, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
HTML::FillInForm http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML::FillInForm Data::FormValidator http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data::FormValidator will be your best bets -- Clayton	[reply]