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The glue between these can be CGI::FormBuilder (and its wrapper module, for example Catalyst::Plugin::FormBuilder for Catalyst).

However, this module knows nothing about databases, you have to describe the fields of your form in a YAML-like file. Also, your controler tends to end up with a lot of "was this form submitted? did it validate? then push it to DBIC" boilerplate code.

I believe it wouldn't be too hard to write a DRY wrapper around FormBuilder, though, because most of the required information can already be found in the OO-relational mapper.

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Re^2: Database application development with Perl
by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2008 at 14:51 UTC
    Are there form modules in CPAN which can do "subform" (a la MS Access)? This combined with updatable view feature from database are basically the "core" of MS Access which makes developing apps like POS/order/invoicing/library/etc very easy. Most webapp framework that I glance do not have this feature.