Re: [Templates] Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-08 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:51:48AM +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I'm a huge fan of passing Date::Simple objects, which can then take a strftime format string: [% date.format(%d %b %y) %] [% date.format(%Y-%m-%d) %] And the latter does not require a programmer? Of course not. It just

Re: [Templates] Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-07 Thread Tony Bowden
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:08:56PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: Suppose you have a model object for a concert which includes a date. On one page, the designers want to dipslay the date in a verbose way with the month spelled out, but on another they want it abbreviated and fixed length so

Re: [Templates] Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-07 Thread Ed
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:14:25AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:08:56PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: Suppose you have a model object for a concert which includes a date. On one page, the designers want to dipslay the date in a verbose way with the month spelled out,

Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-06 Thread wsheldah
Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: modperl List [EMAIL PROTECTED], Template Toolkit List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Wesley Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark) Subject: Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC) Here's my theory: the best usage of most templating systems are virtually

Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
Sam Tregar wrote: Now, I don't use HTML::Template::Expr. I think it's generally not such a good idea. But it's there if you want it... For posterity, and possible inclusion in the next rev of the templating tutorial, how would you recommend people handle this sort of situation without

Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-06 Thread Sam Tregar
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: For posterity, and possible inclusion in the next rev of the templating tutorial, how would you recommend people handle this sort of situation without using HTML::Template::Expr? Suppose you have a model object for a concert which includes a date.

Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Wardley
Continuing from the thread on the modperl mailing list: On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 05:04:01PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: I don't think the standard HTML::Template has support for formatting numbers, dates, etc. And thank the sweet lord it doesn't! HTML::Template is a do one thing and do it

Re: Separating Aspects (Re: separating C from V in MVC)

2002-06-05 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Andy Wardley wrote: In TT, you would usually pre-declare a particular format in a config file, pre-processed templates, or some other global style document. e.g. [% USE money = format('%.02f') %] In your main page templates you would do something like this: [%