Re: Re: HTML::Template, DBI and <TMPL

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um, no! Maybe this should have been a meditation or a snippet. I hope you don't mind that I pinched your very much simplified code example. I was writing this in the heat of a busy morning and just wanted to get it all down before I got interupted again.

Pressure of time has kept me from looking at TT/TT2 so I look forward to your tutorial on that as well, it may influence me for the future. I have got all the TT2 stuff installed but every time I look at the doc's I head straight back to HTML::Template.

John jdtoronto

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3Re: HTML::Template, DBI and <TMPL_LOOP>'s by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 03, 2004 at 03:45 UTC
The one thing that really "won me over" was the WRAPPER directive. I so want this feature in HTML::Template, but i fear that some heavy lifting will be required to add it ... anyways, WRAPPER allows you to contain a "header" and a "footer" in one file. This is incredibly useful. Imaging that you have a skeleton ... oh wait a second! I've already explained this once before to you at Re: HTML::Template question. :D Go back and look at that example again. You may ask yourself, "well, there is a complete script for the H::T example, but where is the code for TT the example?" First, my apologies for not explaining ... second, try this: save the first template as `skeleton.html` save the two pages as `page1.html` and `page2.html`, respectively type `tpage page1.html` in your shell If you have all the TT2 stuff installed correctly that should work just fine. Neat, eh? If you want a skeleton Perl script to work with, try this one on for size: Read more... (2 kB) HTML::Template is simpler and faster, but TT is more fun and extremely powerful. ;) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 03, 2004 at 03:45 UTC

The one thing that really "won me over" was the WRAPPER directive. I so want this feature in HTML::Template, but i fear that some heavy lifting will be required to add it ... anyways, WRAPPER allows you to contain a "header" and a "footer" in one file. This is incredibly useful. Imaging that you have a skeleton ... oh wait a second! I've already explained this once before to you at Re: HTML::Template question. :D

Go back and look at that example again. You may ask yourself, "well, there is a complete script for the H::T example, but where is the code for TT the example?" First, my apologies for not explaining ... second, try this:

save the first template as skeleton.html
save the two pages as page1.html and page2.html, respectively
type tpage page1.html in your shell

If you want a skeleton Perl script to work with, try this one on for size: