Re^6: Generation of dynamically-static documents

It is very easy to use DBI and such from inside a TT2-template and if all else fails you can use pure Perl in the templates.

And that way lies madness :-)

Throwing Perl code and direct DBI access into TT2 templates rapidly produces an unmaintainable mess in my experience.

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Re^7: Generation of dynamically-static documents by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 13, 2005 at 15:13 UTC
Yes, but it takes a genius to master chaos! Seriously, it is not much different from adding `print`-statements with HTML-code in your Perl-script. It would take something like Catalyst to keep all the various concerns nicely separate. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: Generation of dynamically-static documents by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 14, 2005 at 16:42 UTC
Seriously, it is not much different from adding print-statements with HTML-code in your Perl-script. You're right it's not much different, just from the opposite direction. This, of course, doesn't mean that it is a good thing :-) It would take something like Catalyst to keep all the various concerns nicely separate. Nope. All it takes is writing presentation oriented TT2 plugins. Easy.	[reply]