At 02:11 PM 8/23/00, Perrin Harkins wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Todd Finney wrote:
> > We were looking for a way to do only templating, and
> leave
> > (essentially) everything else on the site alone.
>
>For that, Template Toolkit, HTML::Template, or
>CGI::FastTemplate are
>probably your best options.
As I said, Template::Toolkit is nice, but more tool than we
need. I'll have to investigate the last two.
> > Almost, but we still have a couple of concerns about
> > it. First, it would mean that we'd have to update all
> the
> > cgis to not use CGI.pm for form argument handling.
>
>You mean for HTML generation and "sticky" forms? You can
>still use CGI.pm
>for that with Template Toolkit and I think you can with
>Mason as
>well. Take a look at the mail archives.
The CGI.pm concern was specifically related to Mason. See
my reply to Matt for a link to the FAQ to which I was
referring.
> > Second, we need to be able to do per-user templates,
> which I don't
> > believe it can do (can AxKit do that?).
>
>You can modify the template path at run time with any of
>these, which
>should do the trick.
I didn't realize that was so basic a requirement, but I
suppose it would be handy in a lot of situations.
thanks,
Todd
