I've been using combination of CGI::Application, HTML::Template and few other modules for quite some time.

But I need to ajust it a bit to match my needs. And I would like to add a new template tag - similar to TMPL_INCLUDE. But it would not include other template files, but output of some object.

Kind of, if it finds say <-- TMPL_PLUGIN NAME="some_name" --> it will require some_name.pm; and then call it's method, say output.

I've been looking into filters for HTML::Template, but simply couldnt make it work for anything. Even some simple thing like any other regex that normaly works ...

Eventialy I will want to change CGI::App (or create something similar) to add this functionality and also strip of a need to define wich methods are OK to be run_modes. Idea that I have is simply alow any sub whose name doesnt start with _.

In reply to Extending HTML::Template, how to do it? by techcode

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