Hi dhoss!

Taking a cue from jeffa.

Am I right in thinking that by "coerce" you mean using the HTML::Template "associate" option to use a parameter in the CGI query object?

If that is the case then perhaps the following may help.

#!/bin/perl5

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI::Carp qw(
  fatalsToBrowser 
);

package main;

my $webapp = App->new();
$webapp->run();


package App;

use base 'CGI::Application';
use CGI;

sub cgiapp_get_query {
  
  my $self = shift;

  # initilise the query object
  # with some params
  my $q = CGI->new(
    {
      'test'     => 'test page',
      'greeting' => 'Hi there!',
    }
  );
  
  return $q;
  
}

sub setup {
  
  my $self = shift;
  
  $self->start_mode('test');
  $self->run_modes([qw|test|]);
  
}


sub test{
  
  my $self = shift;
  
  my $html;
  {
    local $/;
    $html = <DATA>;
  }

  my $tmpl_obj = $self->load_tmpl(
    \$html,
    associate => $self->query,
  );
  
  return $tmpl_obj->output();

}

__DATA__
<html>
<head>
<title><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME = TEST --></title>
</head>
<body>
<p><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME = GREETING --></p>
</body>
</html>

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output: 
---------- Capture Output ----------
> "C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" c_app.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<html>
<head>
<title>test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hi there!</p>
</body>
</html>

> Terminated with exit code 0.

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update:
dhoss! You changed your snippet while I preparing this post :-(
Hope this may still be of some use. :-)

In reply to Re: CGI::Application/HTML::Template problem by wfsp
in thread CGI::Application/HTML::Template problem by stonecolddevin

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