Re: RFC: Apache::Request::Forms (or something similar)

[Doug MacEachern]

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.
> 
> The module is currently planned to be fairly bare-boned, only adding form
> element generation methods for methods which will benefit from CGI.pm-style
> sticky values, and the parameters these methods take are likely to be a lot
> more restricted than CGI.pm's (not difficult, really). However, this could
> change in the unlikely event that we get deluged with feature requests.

personally, i'd like to see Apache::HTML for generating html, written in
c.  something simple along the lines of HTML::AsSubs, then another class
to glues it and Apache::Request together that provides CGI.pm features,
like 'sticky forms'.  but, i haven't given that much thought.