I've actually been working on something similar at work, although the template system is just one small part of it. The other part is a web-based database/form designer - pretty much, I made some tools that allow you to design a database - what fields you want and then create a form to capture those fields - should this be a select box, a text area, an image upload? You can then populate a website directory with the information you capture.

part of the templating system features a templating language, where you have special tokens that are then parsed to their $real_value. Part of the language includes basic looping, so I could say: 

 
[loop Company isnot Microsoft]

[if foo] 

<blink> we have foo! - <b>[foo]</b></blink> 

[else]

<p><i>no foo found for [name] :( 


[/if]

[/loop]

[download]

I could also say something like: 

 
[perl]

my $var = 'yadda yadda.. bing!'; 
return $var 

[/perl]

[download]

to do things that are too complicated for the templating language.

I must say, the template parsing was a quite a challenge, I didn't use any outside modules, accept one's i created. Everything melds together quite nicely. We can now design, create, and build an entire dynamic section of a website in about an hour, something that would take me at least 2-3 days to hard code and debug.

After we're all set, we can give our client a simple for to manage the section.

 

-justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to Re: CGI framework test 1. by skazat
in thread CGI framework test 1. by boo_radley

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