in reply to mod_perl and TT2...WITHOUT a calling script?

looking into mod_perl, it should be quite easy to do what I need. i'm going to create a simple mod_perl handler associated with all html documents: 
PerlModule My::PerlHandler
<Files *.html>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler My::PerlHandler
</Files>

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I just need to figure out how to run the actual file requested through a TT2 object in the handler module...any pointers on that? i'm also skimming the mod_perl docs as I type this.

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Re^2: mod_perl and TT2...WITHOUT a calling script?
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 10, 2006 at 18:04 UTC

    You could simply have something like the following in your My::PerlHandler : 

    use Template;
use Apache::Constants qw( :common );


my $tt;

sub handler
{
   my ( $request ) = @_;

   my $file = $request->filename();

   $tt ||= Template->new();

    my $params = {};

    my $out;
    $tt->process($file, $params, \$out)
      or do {
          $request->log_reason( $tt->error );
          return SERVER_ERROR;
      };
                                                                      
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    $request->content_type('text/html');
    $request->send_http_header;
    $request->print( $out );
                                                                      
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    return OK;  
    
}

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    But that isn't tested and you may need to flesh it out a bit more.

    /J\

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      thanks gellyfish! thats what i needed to know, the $request->filename() method!
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