Autarch wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > Drew Taylor and I are about to write a subclass of Apache::Request which
> > includes form element generation methods, a la CGI.pm. The current favourite
> > name is Apache::Request::Forms, but we'd like to know if anyone has a better
> > one.
>
> There's going to be a new version of CGI some time in the future which
> will allow you to only use the parts of it you need without all the memory
> bloat. There's an alpha on Lincoln's page at
>
> http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/CGI.pm-3.01tar.gz
>
> With this and Apache::Request I'm not sure I see the need for what you
> guys are working on.
Well, my question is 1). when is it going to be released and 2) what is
the interface? Our aim is to produce a much smaller module, intended to
be used only under mod_perl, with a much more restricted set of methods.
If anyone is interested, here are the form elements we're currently
looking at inplementing:
textfield()
textarea()
passwordfield()
checkbox()
checkbox_group()
radio_group()
popup_menu()
scrolling_list()
Our reasoning behind this is very simple. We need (and in fact I rely
HEAVILYon ) a few of the HTML generation features in CGI.pm, namely
popup_menu for myself. I would like to convert my sites to pure perl
handlers, and drop CGI.pm all together. But I can't do this until I have
a drop-in replacement, hence this project.
--
Drew Taylor
Vialogix Communications, Inc.
501 N. College Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
704 370 0550
http://www.vialogix.com/
