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

[Simon McCartney]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:06:53AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You can pass in subrefs:
> 
> 	#!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> 	use strict;
> 	use warnings;
> 
> 	use Template;
> 
> 	my $tt = Template->new();
> 	$tt->process(\*DATA, {
> 		foo => sub { 1 + 2 },
> 		bar => sub { 3 ** 8 },
> 	});
> 
> 	__DATA__
> 	[% foo %]
> 	[% bar %]
> 
> 
> However, this is probably not what you really want to be doing. Without
> more information though, we probably won't know the better way.

I'm trying to limit the knock on effect of adding functionality.  Your
fragment suggests not using a template handler and just using straight CGI
(with mod_perl), this is maybe what I'm looking for, the best way to do the
processing. 

> If you're doing DBI stuff with TT, you might want to look at Class::DBI,
> which plays very nicely with TT...

Yeah, I've been working on Class::DBI'ing my existing non-presentation code..

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