I'm working on a site where a URL calls a different template depending on where it's been called from.

For instance if the script gets called at myserver.com/foo/ then the script parses the path and uses the template "foo.tmpl". If it's in myserver.com/bar/ it uses the template "bar.tmpl" and so on.

I'd like to go one further -- I'd like "foo.tmpl" to include a file: <tmpl_include name="foo.inc"> and "bar.tmpl" to include a different file <tmpl_include name="bar.inc">.

Is there any way to do this? The obvious way to do it is something like, create a variable $foonav and pass it to the template and have 

<tmpl_if name="foonav">
<tmpl_include name="foo-nav.inc">
</tmpl_if>

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And so on for a bunch of other variables. But that feels pretty kludgy.

And which brings me to my second question, why, when I do this: 

<tmpl_if name="foonav">
  <tmpl_include name="foo-nav.inc">
</tmpl_if>

<tmpl_if name="barnav">
  <tmpl_include name="bar-nav.inc">
</tmpl_if>

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Does it cause the following error message: HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file /path/to/foo-nav.inc : file not found. at /usr/share/perl/5.8/HTML/Template.pm line 2241.

Even when I haven't ever called on "bar-nav.inc"? No matter whether the variable is passed to grab the include, I get the error. I'm busy developing and haven't created the file yet. It somehow seems inefficient for HTML::Template to be checking the existence of files when it doesn't need to. Can I tell it not to?


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In reply to Two questions about HTML::Template by Cody Pendant

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