[Templates] TT and (sticky) form handling

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:16:09PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 17:10, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > I want to use TT for the usual form-based Web app,
> > with the usual features for this--partly populating
> > a form based on info stored in a database, keeping
> > the values in place if you need to return to the
> > form to have the user correct missing/erroneous
> > values, and so forth.
> [...]
> > I wasn't able to find any discussion of this in the
> > docs, or on Perlmonks, or on the last few months of
> > this list's archives.
> 
> Hmmm, I know we've talked about this before.  Maybe we need a better
> search for the archives.
> 
> The gist is that most people either use CGI.pm via the CGI plugin or use
> TT tags to make values sticky, e.g. VALUE="[% cgi_args.value %]"

Ah, yes. The CGI plugin does look like it would take care of everything
I could possibly need....

Thanks very much. In passing (since performance isn't such a big
deal for this project) how does the CGI plugin function in a
mod_perl environment, either with Apache::PerlRun or with a
full-blown Apache::Registry environment?

Best,

Jesse Sheidlower