: >
: >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.
I would as well Doug.
I find that I only use Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie and that I
sometimes need the functionality of CGI qw(:forms), but reframe from using
it due to the bloatish issues.
i.e it would be great to have such a thing as it would complement
Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie.
ps How are you getting on with the eagerly awaited mod_perl-dev-1.99 ?
Just my 2 pence worth of a feature request
Greg Cope
(who should get his head round learning C one day)
