If you would have used an OO framework like CGI::Application for the structure of your app, you would have been able to do this very easily, without needing to subclass HTML::Template.

package My::App;

use base qw(CGI::Application);

sub load_tmpl {
  my $self = shift;

  my $template = $self->SUPER::load_tmpl(@_);
  # add some global params here
  $template->param( ... );
  return $template;
}

sub runmode {
  my $self = shift;
  my $template = $self->load_tmpl('filename.tmpl');
  $template->param( ... );
  return $template->output;
}

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OO doesn't work for everything, but if you find yourself passing the same bits of data to all of your functions, then you probably should at least investigate using an object instead.

In reply to Re: The Power of Objects by cees
in thread The Power of Objects by Mutant

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