NAME

CGI::Widget - Base class for CGI::Widget::...

SYNOPSIS

  use CGI::Widget qw(:standard);
  #prints 1,2,3,4,
  print Series(-length=>4,-render=>sub{return shift.','});

DESCRIPTION

The CGI::Widget module's purpose is to allow authors of CGI or other dynamically generated HTML documents an easy way to create common, and possibly complex, page elements.

Widgets can be accessed either by explicitly creating Widget objects, as:

  use CGI::Widget::Series;
  my $series_widget = CGI::Widget::Series->new();
  print $series_widget,"\n";

or by using the CGI::Widget standard import tag, as: use CGI::Widget qw(:standard); print Series(),"\n";

Using ':standard' uses an AUTOLOAD subroutine to check for Widget classes in the CGI::Widget namespace. If someone knows of a better way to do this, let me know!

EXPORT

 :standard : AUTOLOAD for classes in the CGI::Widget namespace.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for valuable ideas.

AUTHOR

 Allen Day E<allenday@ucla.edu>
 Copyright (c) 2001.

SEE ALSO

Perl. CGI::Widget::Series