Yes, it does, and the authors specifically state that having the template do all the heavy lifting violates standard practice for large applications. However, they do state that, for smaller sites, this can be beneficial.

In addition, having your templates talk to a database doesn't violate MVC, in and of itself. Let's take a real-world example that I have worked on - a site that is available in 12 languages. Obviously, what language you present in is a V-layer issue. So, when you want to specify the column names for your report, you indicate in your code (either in the template or in the script) that you want the names for column 1 .. 5 in language $lang. The template would then lookup in a front-end database what the actual strings are for those columns in that language.

Contrast this approach with the one that was taken. They were using HTML::Template, not Template Toolkit. They had a master template with the column specifiers. They then had a pre-processing step (kinda like compiling templates) which converted the master into 12 copies, one for each language. The actual strings were stored in a database that would be consulted when the templates were compiled.

I know which method I prefer ...

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: One structure to describe multiple arrays or hashes by dragonchild
in thread One structure to describe multiple arrays or hashes by tkil

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