I'm coming to this discussion quite late since I only just
resubscribed having changed jobs. Well, quit a job and gone
freelance.
As it happens, I've just written a form generation library, but one
that's driven by being mapped directly on top of a database table. It
can deduce the various field types by looking at the table metadata,
and you can tweak the appearance of the form with
->{table}->{field}->[ATTRIBUTE] settings.
Is this in the ballpark or have I totally missed something here?!
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