Re: [htmltmpl] Re: Patches for HTML-Template-2.5.tar.gz

[Philip S T. <phi...@gm...>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Sam Tregar wrote:

> >         <TMPL_VAR NAME="PARAMETER_NAME" VALUE="default value">
> 
> Some people will like this, I imagine.  Maybe call it "DEFAULT"?  I think
> I might take this as a separate patch.  What do others think?

I'd agree with this. the default="" parameter would be quite useful to 
me.

> > 6. add __count__ to loops
> >
> >          <TMPL_VAR NAME="__count__">-th record in the loop.

Count is useful in many cases, but would really only be convenience.  
Not sure if it should be called __COUNT__ or __INDEX__ though.

Then of course, we could have __INDEX__ be the record number, and 
__COUNT__ be the total number of records.  Heh.  Ok, just kidding.

What I would really like to see though is a <tmpl_elseif> and 
<tmpl_elseunless>.  That would really clean up some of my templates that 
have too many nested ifs.

It would specially make sense with multi state scripts that need to show 
a different body after every step of a form processing, but a lot of 
common stuff.  (Is this what CGI::Application does?)

Philip