On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:05, R. Bryant wrote:
Hi List,
Is it possible to use CGI.pm in conjunction with a templating system?
Whenever you send out anything from your CGI object you'll do something like this, correct?
my $cgi = CGI->new; print $cgi->header;
Well you're *printing* anything you send out. So if you wanted to insert something between something else you would just print it.
However, I'm not quite sure this response is exactly what you're looking
for. I don't know of any templating systems off the top of my head that
allow you to read in some template file and spit out some data. However, I would assume it would not be too hard to implement.
Back when I was writing CGI in C (my pre-Perl days), I would create an HTML file that contained %s, %d, etc. in place of where values should go. I would then read in the file to a variable. I would do something like:
printf($file_that_i_read, value1, value2, value3, value4, value5, value6);
which worked fairly well. The only problem was that I had to create/edit the HTML templated by hand because any HTML editor would try to escape my '%s' and '%d'. Of course, since I write my HTML by hand anyway, that's not really a problem ;)
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