On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:45, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Dan Anderson wrote: > > 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 ;)
Perl's substitution regular expressions work great for that. I often use HTML templates where in a section for a table I'll put something like: ##PUT#DATA#HERE## And regular expression s[##PUT#DATA#HERE##][$foo] where foo is what I'm putting in works wonderfully. -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
