[Belfast-pm] Template Toolkit, passing in a hash?

[alan pearson]

Errrrr ignore that last comment perl folk, didn't
realise that went to the list !!

Before the smart comments start....
He was best man at my wedding....

--- alan pearson <alandpearson at yahoo.com> wrote: > So
is the hash they generate passed in as a
> reference
> or do they return (Ughhh) one of their  local hashes
> ?
> 
> Why not wrap the call to the Calculate function with
> an if ($FreshStats), or at the top of the function
> chech if the last time is called is older than the
> refresh interval ??
> 
> PS got the video and photos.... you do look spiffing
> !!!
> 
> --- Simon McCartney <simon at thebreakfasttable.com>
> wrote: > I've been playing with TT on Debian, I've
> used it to
> > prototype some stuff
> > using DBI calls in the template, but I want to
> move
> > to the next level.
> > (I'm using Apache, MySQL & have the handler
> > registered etc)
> > 
> > I have a couple of routines that generate a hash
> of
> > information, and I want
> > to display these in the processed template.
> > 
> > My understanding is that I would pass the hash in
> > using $vars in the
> > process method. But this means that the
> calculations
> > take place for every
> > page served by that handler, hardly efficient.
> > 
> > My next option would be to pass the subroutine in
> > and only call it when
> > needed in the template.  But this means changing
> my
> > handler everytime I
> > want to add a new subroutine to the module.
> > 
> > Is there a better way? Am I missing something?
> > I guess I want to be able to use it as a plugin
> > without writing a
> > plugin..is a plugin the correct way to go?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Simon.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon McCartney
> > simon at thebreakfasttable.com
> > 
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