Re: templates vs here docs

I use TT2 (Template Toolkit) for creating dynamic web sites from SQL databases very quickly and easily. I like TT2 because I can retrieve a SELECT FROM...WHERE from the content database and then loop through the data, use a column as a flag to tell me how to process the data, and then output it to the HTML.

<!-- start of sidebar  -->

[% FOREACH sdbar = sidebar %]

 [% SWITCH sdbar.htag %]
 [% CASE "CC" %]
 [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "CH" %]
 [% sdbar.htext %]
 [% CASE "/DIV" %]
 </div>
 [% CASE "DC" %]
 <div class ="[% sdbar.htext %]">
 [% CASE "DI" %]
  <div id ="[% sdbar.htext %]">
 [% CASE "P" %]
 <p>
 [% CASE "/P" %]
 </p>
 [% CASE "DIT" %]
 <div id="mkdoc-children" title='Sidebar menu for "[% g_company %]".'>
 [% CASE "LL" %]
 
   <li xml:lang="[% g_lang %]" lang="[% g_lang %]" class="lang-[% g_la
+ng %]">
   <a title="[% sdbar.ctext %]"
   href="[% g_sitename %]/[% sdbar.htext %]" hreflang="[% g_lang %]">[
+% sdbar.dtext %]</a>
   </li>
 [% CASE "H1" %]
 <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.htext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
  [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "H2" %]
    <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.htext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
    [% sdbar.ctext %]
 [% CASE "UL" %]
 <ul>
 [% CASE "/UL" %]
 </ul>
 [% CASE "LI" %]
   <[% sdbar.htag %]>[% sdbar.ctext %]</[% sdbar.htag %]>
 [% CASE "@C" %]
   <!--
 [% CASE %]
   An unexpected error has occured.<BR><B>[% sdbar.htag %]</B><BR>
 [% END %]
[% END %] 
 
<!-- end of sidebar  -->
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The power of the template language makes for MVC like another poster mentioned, the seperation of content, data, and templates.

Richard

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