Well, maybe there's more to it than I wrote originally.
I imagine a Perl script with some generic form generation routines that take their directions from some specs held within the database.
For example, for field_1:
- at creation is to be displayed as a drop-down on the creation screen, with possible values a-to-z,
- not be editable on a record-update screen
- in a listing of records from the table, not be displayed if the user is of user_type=X.
These parts of the database specification are going to be littered here and there throughout the system, in conditionals and template layouts. What I imagine is having these specs centralized within the database somewhere and then a generic screen form element generator script that takes its direction from those specs.
Mmmmmm....I'm beginning to imagine a table of table column specs.....
Table: specs
table_name, field_name, creation_form_type, editable, view_types,....
Something like that....but I fear a great deal of querying for every page generation.
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