Easily generate and process stateful CGI forms

CGI::FormBuilder is a Perl module for generating, processing, and validating CGI forms. It's an extremely fast and robust module with a ridiculous set of features.

Highlights:

 * DWIMmery

FormBuilder tries to do what you mean. Tell it the fields you care about, and it takes care of all the stupid HTML and JavaScript generation and processing for you. It also gives you back the correct values that you want. It will even label your fields automatically with human-readable names.

 * Input field abstraction

Simply define your fields and their options, and FormBuilder will take care of figuring out what the best HTML representation is. It will then generate the appropriate input fields (text, select, radio, etc), even changing any JavaScript actions appropriately.

 * Easy handling of defaults

Just specify a hash of values to use as the defaults for your fields. This will be searched case-insensitively and displayed in the form. What's more, if the user enters something via the CGI that overrides a default, when you use the field() method to get the data you'll get the correct value.

 * Correct stickiness

Stickiness is a PITA. FormBuilder correctly handles even multiple values selected in a multiple select list, completely integrated with proper handling of defaults.

 * Robust field validation

Form validation sucks, and this is where FormBuilder is a big help. It has tons of builtin patterns, and will even generate gobs of JavaScript validation code for you. It is possible to specify your own regexps as well, and FormBuilder will even check multivalued select lists correctly.

 * Multiple submit mode support

FormBuilder allows one to reliably tell whether the person clicked on the "Update" or "Delete" button of your form, normally a big pain.

 * Template driver support

FormBuilder can natively "drive" several major templating engines:

 * HTML::Template
 * CGI::FastTemplate
 * Text::Template
 * Template Toolkit

FormBuilder can help building a complete form application with a template in less that 20 lines of Perl.

 * Internationalized, Customizable Messaging

FormBuilder allows customization of every single message that outputs for given locale.

 * Simple Interface

The author has specialized in User Interface Design.

 * Extensive Documentation

Tags: Software Development: Perl Development, Libraries, Implemented in: Perl, Role: role::program, use::browsing, Purpose: Configuration, World Wide Web: CGI, Supports Format: works-with-format::html, works-with::text

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