HTML::Formulate
===============
HTML::Formulate is a perl module used to produce HTML forms. It uses
a presentation definition hash to control the output format, which is
great for flexible programmatic control, inheritance, and subclassing
(e.g. defining site- or section-specific HTML::Formulate subclasses
and then producing standardised forms very easily). On the other hand,
it doesn't give you the very fine-grained control over presentation
that you get using a template-based system.
Example:
# Simple employee create form
$f = HTML::Formulate->new({
fields => [ qw(firstname surname email position) ],
required => [ qw(firstname surname) ],
});
print $f->render;
prints:
<form method="post">
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr><th style="color:blue"><span class="required">Firstname</span></th><td><input name="firstname" type="text" /></td></tr>
<tr><th style="color:blue"><span class="required">Surname</span></th><td><input name="surname" type="text" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Email</th><td><input name="email" type="text" /></td></tr>
<tr><th>Position</th><td><input name="position" type="text" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">
<input name="_submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
INSTALLATION
The standard:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires the standard Carp module, and will use CGI::Carp if
it's available.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Gavin Carr
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
