I believe the technique I was using was removed from DBI about 3 months after my post. It was replaced with a more elegant (IMHO) system that can replicate the same results with newer versions of DBI.

In the earlier example I was trying get DBI to return an array reference of hash references with a single DBI method call. I don't see the need to break something up into multiple steps (prepare/execute/fetchall_arrayref) if DBI provides an all-in-one "utility method" that does these things underneath. Plus, as jeffa mentioned, it cuts down the number of places where you need to specify the names of the columns -- which is convenient if you ever need to make changes.

Here's how I would do it using a more recent version of DBI:

my $statement = q{
  SELECT id
       , title
    FROM movie
};

# $template is an HTML::Template object
$template->param(
  movies => $dbh->selectall_arrayref($statement, { Slice => {} }),
);

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In reply to (dkubb) Re: (2) HTML::Template, DBI and <TMPL_LOOP>'s by dkubb
in thread HTML::Template, DBI and <TMPL_LOOP>'s by jdtoronto

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