I've actually implemented something like this before for static forms html forms.

The solution I came up with was an object that was a subclass of HTML::Parser. It was passed a CGI which held all of the info about what had been selected (I was keeping this info around in a database, so that I could pull up any form at anytime and repopulate it with its last info for that user), and then as I parsed through the html, when I hit an input field (or select fields), I would start filling them in with the appropriate info.

All of this worked off of the field names, so I could actually pull up a different form with the same field names, and populate it.

I Suppose that wasn't much of a technical answer, but maybe it will give you some ideas on how you might want to implement something yourself.

Let me know if you want more info on how I did it.


cephas