BrianC has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I'm trying to convert some templates from HTML::Template to TT, but I'm having trouble getting out of the gate. I can't seem to get TT to produce any output, and error logs don't seem to show any problem. This is the test code I'm using: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use Template;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header("text/html");

my $template = Template->new({INCLUDE_PATH => '/home/xxxx/yyy/zzzz'});
my $vars = {
            message => 'Hello',
            };
$template->process('test.html', $vars);

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and test.html 
<html>
<head>
<title>TestPage</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Message</h1>
<p>[% message %]</p>
<p>That's it</p>
</body>
</html>

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And, as I've said, get no output except the content type header. Thanks for any help, Brian

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Re: no output from template toolkit
by jbisbee (Pilgrim) on Jul 08, 2006 at 00:08 UTC
    When in doubt, check for exceptions... 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use Template;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header("text/html");

my $template = Template->new( { INCLUDE_PATH => '/home/xxxx/yyy/zzzz' 
+} )
    || die Template->error(), "\n";
my $vars = { message => 'Hello', };
$template->process( 'test.html', $vars )
    || die $template->error();

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    returns 
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

file error - test.html: not found

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    Maybe you shoud just need to set your "INCLUDE_PATH" to the correct location of your test.html file?

    -biz-

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      Thank you very much!

      OK, shame on me for not doing that error checking. I am beating my head with a stone tablet as we speak

      Brian

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