Greetings, fellow monks.

I am currently working on a project that involves having a number of pages that all have the same basic 'frame':

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DBI;
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
use HTML::Template;
use HTML::Entities;

use lib 'code';
use config;

my $template = templates::loadTemplate('template');
my %T;
my $innerTemplate;
    ## Security
    $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;    # no uploads!
    $CGI::POST_MAX = 512*1024;    # max 512k post
my $q = new CGI;
my $c;

## different stuff here

## Filling in the template here
if($innerTemplate) {
    # load the template in, put it into %T.
    my $template = templates::loadTemplate('$innerTemplate');
    $template->param($T{innerContent}) if $T{innerContent};
    $T{content} = $template->output();
}

print $q->header();
$template->param(%T);
print $template->output();

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...And the only thing that seems to differ from script-to-script is the area that says "different stuff here".

This has gotten me to wondering: is there a way that I could write my scripts so that I would only need to write my 'frame' once? The code for a specific script would then somehow just get included into the area it needed to be. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how I'd do it if it was?

Thanks,

Spidy
website army

In reply to Framing my scripts by Spidy

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