HTML::FillInForm::Lite - Lightweight FillInForm module in Pure Perl
The document describes HTML::FillInForm::Lite version 1.13
use HTML::FillInForm::Lite;
use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();
my $h = HTML::FillInForm::Lite->new();
$output = $h->fill(\$html, $q);
$output = $h->fill(\@html, \%data);
$output = $h->fill(\*HTML, \&my_param);
$output = $h->fill('t.html', [$q, \%default]);
# or as a class method with options
$output = HTML::FillInForm::Lite->fill(\$html, $q,
fill_password => 0, # it is default
ignore_fields => ['foo', 'bar'],
target => $form_id,
);
# Moreover, it accepts any object as form data
# (these classes come form Class::DBI's SYNOPSIS)
my $artist = Music::Artist->insert({ id => 1, name => 'U2' });
$output = $h->fill(\$html, $artist);
my $cd = Music::CD->retrieve(1);
$output = $h->fill(\$html, $cd);
# simple function interface
use HTML::FillInForm::Lite qw(fillinform);
# the same as HTML::FillInForm::Lite->fill(...)
$output = fillinform(\$html, $q);
This module fills in HTML forms with Perl data, which re-implements HTML::FillInForm using regexp-based parser, not using HTML::Parser.
The difference in the parsers makes HTML::FillInForm::Lite about 2 times faster than HTML::FillInForm.
Simple interface to the fill() method, accepting only a string. If you pass a single argument to this function, it is interpreted as form_data, and returns a function that accepts source.
my $fillinform = fillinform($query);
$fillinform->($html); # the same as fillinform($html, $query)
This function is exportable.
Creates HTML::FillInForm::Lite processor with options.
There are several options. All the options are disabled when undef is supplied.
Acceptable options are as follows:
To enable passwords to be filled in, set the option true.
Note that the effect of the option is the same as that of HTML::FillInForm, but by default HTML::FillInForm::Lite ignores password fields.
To ignore some fields from filling.
To fill in just the form identified by form_id.
If true is provided (or by default), values filled in text fields will be HTML-escaped, e.g. <tag> to be <tag>.
If the values are already HTML-escaped, set the option false.
You can supply a subroutine reference to escape the values.
Note that it is not implemented in HTML::FillInForm.
If true is provided , HTML entities in state fields (namely, radio, checkbox and select) will be decoded, but normally it is not needed.
You can also supply a subroutine reference to decode HTML entities.
Note that HTML::FillInForm always decodes HTML entities in state fields, but not supports this option.
To read a file with :iolayer. It is used when a file name is supplied as source.
For example:
# To read a file encoded in UTF-8
$fif = HTML::FillInForm::Lite->new(layer => ':utf8');
$output = $fif->fill($utf8_file, $fdat);
# To read a file encoded in EUC-JP
$fif = HTML::FillInForm::Lite->new(layer => ':encoding(euc-jp)');
$output = $fif->fill($eucjp_file, $fdat);
Note that it is not implemented in HTML::FillInForm.
Fills in source with form_data. If source or form_data is not supplied, it will cause die.
options are the same as new()'s.
You can use this method as a both class or instance method, but you make multiple calls to fill() with the same options, it is a little faster to call new() and store the instance.
source may be a scalar reference, an array reference of strings, or a file name.
form_data may be a hash reference, an object with param() method, an object with accessors, a code reference, or an array reference of those above mentioned.
If form_data is based on procedures (i.e. not a hash reference), the procedures will be called in the list context. Therefore, to leave some fields untouched, it must return a null list (), not undef.
Perl 5.8.1 or later.
HTML::FillInFormThis module implements only the new syntax of HTML::FillInForm version 2. However, HTML::FillInForm::Lite::Compat provides an interface compatible with HTML::FillInForm.
This module is designed to process XHTML 1.x.
And it also supporting a good part of HTML 4.x , but there are some limitations. First, it doesn't understand HTML-attributes that the name is omitted.
For example:
<INPUT TYPE=checkbox NAME=foo CHECKED> -- NG.
<INPUT TYPE=checkbox NAME=foo CHECKED=checked> - OK, but obsolete.
<input type="checkbox" name="foo" checked="checked" /> - OK, valid XHTML
Then, it always treats the values of attributes case-sensitively. In the example above, the value of type must be lower-case.
Moreover, it doesn't recognize omitted closing tags, like:
<select name="foo">
<option>bar
<option>baz
</select>
When you can't get what you want, try to give your source to a HTML lint.
This module processes all the processable, not knowing comments nor something that shouldn't be processed.
It may cause problems. Suppose there is a code like:
<script> document.write("<input name='foo' />") </script>
HTML::FillInForm::Lite will break the code:
<script> document.write("<input name='foo' value="bar" />") </script>
To avoid such problems, you can use the ignore_fields option.
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bug or feature request to <gfuji(at)cpan.org>, or through the RT http://rt.cpan.org/.
HTML::FillInForm::Lite::JA - the document in Japanese.
HTML::FillInForm::Lite::Compat - HTML::FillInForm compatibility layer
Goro Fuji (藤 吾郎) <gfuji(at)cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Goro Fuji, Some rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
