Re: Forcing Variable Interpolation

Am I understanding this correctly? The template is a file of your own creation, and using perl you read each line of the template, look for $header (for example), and if you find it, drop in your data? If so, you're reinventing the wheel ;) There's a nifty module called HTML::Template that can help you.

A template with HTML::Template takes the following format:

<html>
  <head>
    <title><TMPL_VAR NAME=TITLE></title>
  </head>

  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <TMPL_VAR NAME=BODYTEXT>
  </body>
</html>
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Each TMPL_VAR entry is similar to $header, $footer, etc. You can then populate your template as easily as this:

my $tmpl_frame = HTML::Template->new(filename =>
  "/path/to/my/template.tmpl");

$tmpl_frame->param(
  TITLE => "Sample Page",
  BODYTEXT => "This is some text."
);

print $tmpl_frame->output;
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Cool, eh? ;)

Hope this helps,
MrCromeDome

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Re: Re: Forcing Variable Interpolation by fallenmonkey (Initiate) on May 09, 2002 at 18:45 UTC
Woohoo! For some reason I didn't even think about using an existing module! Thanks so much, that makes so much more sense :P -- The Fallen Monkey	[reply]