I missed part of your questions:
I can save all my template variables in an array, then pass that array over to the template and somehow (don't know how yet) I can then "extract" them into individual items I can use? Did I get that right?
Not quite, you can pass it a hash reference, if you want to fill in several TMPL_VAR's you can do this: 
$template->param( 'username' => 'john',
                  'userstatus' => 'paid' );

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So you can build a HASH and pass in a reference. Oh. lets not forget, in CGI the Vars method will return either a HASH of a HASHREF of all the parameters, instead of iterating over them using the param method you can get then in one bite. If you use 
$hashref = $q->Vars;

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then you get a tied HASHREF which you can pass to H::T. 
$template->param( $hashref );

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will set all the variables for which a hash key exists. In this case <TMPL_VAR name="username"> and <TMPL_VAR name="userstatus">.

Interestingly, H::T can also accept an object with a param method, similar to CGI. Well, this then means that you should be able to pass the query object to H::T, I havn't tried it, but it should work. 

$template->param( associate => $q );

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HTML::Template is immensely flexible and can be used in many ways, and it can be fed in many and various ways too!

jdtoronto

In reply to Re: Re: Re: HTML::Template, CGI, pass template params to next script by jdtoronto
in thread HTML::Template, CGI, pass template params to next script by Lori713

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