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

Dear Monks

I am working with Template Toolkit & have found myself calling header & footer in almost every file I write (which is pretty annoying), so I thought why don't I use PRE & POST PROCESS???

but the problem is: I have few templates that doesn't need header & footer to be included.

Any solution would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Template::Toolkit PRE & POST PROCESS
by stefbv (Priest) on Dec 17, 2009 at 08:48 UTC

    A similar question and answer:

    http://mail.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2005-February/007239.html

    It's about wrapper templates but can be easily adapted to separate header and footer. Here is the content of the message:

    Andy Wardley
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:36:21 +0000


Jonathan Tweed wrote:
I have a template toolkit object that automatically adds
a wrapper to the processed template. Is there any way to
override this on a particular call to process so that
the wrapper does not get added?

You can use a META tag to disable it.

For example, in your wrapper:

  [% IF template.naked;
        content;
     ELSE;
        content WRAPPER site/wrapper;
     END
  %]

Then in your template you can add a tag like this to
disable the WRAPPER:

  [% META naked=1 %]

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      It works well, Thanks for your help

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Re: Template::Toolkit PRE & POST PROCESS
by desemondo (Hermit) on Dec 17, 2009 at 09:00 UTC
    If you haven't created one already, do yourself a favour and make a template for yourself. rewriting the same code is bound to become annoying and frustrating...
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Re: Template::Toolkit PRE & POST PROCESS
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 17, 2009 at 07:22 UTC
    Keep doing what you're doing
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