I generally have one template family for each CGI script. (I use HTML::Template, PDF::Template, Excel::Template, and Graph::Template in conjunction with one another. Thus, there are four templates, each describing a different output format for the same layout.) Sometimes, two scripts will share a template, if the same layout is used, but with different calculations. Sometimes, a script might have more than one layout, depending on what it might do (though that's very rare and should, IMHO, be avoided). But, 1-1 is my most common thing.

Now, <TMPL_IF>'s are not all bad, but if you start having a bunch of them, and they're unrelated, you should probably break it out into a bunch of templates, using <TMLP_INCLUDE>'s and make things easier on yourself. Remember - you should be separating display from logic. If you need to have a bunch of display-logic in your logic, you haven't really made things easier on yourself, have you?

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In reply to Re: Template::HTML - what's the rule of thumb? by dragonchild
in thread HTML::Template - what's the rule of thumb? by kiat

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