If you're asking whether a form CGI can take its format from the structure of a database table, the answer is Yes.

If you're asking if that's a good plan, the answer is Probably Not. :)

The short answer to that is you'll probably end up in a situation where you don't want each column to be represented by a form field, so you'll start to make exceptions. And that way madness lies.

Instead, I use Template::Toolkit to lay out the form, and I may use an array of field names in the CGI to collect information and put it into the database. That way, the CGI form field names are the same as the database field names. And I use CGI::Application as the application framework .. it works well.

Update at 9am, February 13, 2007: I approved this post under Meditations because it doesn't ask a specific question, but rather a general, conceptual question. The anticipated answer would be general thoughts on the topic, and not Here's three lines of code that would solve your problem.