Re: [htmltmpl] Setting TMPL_VAR from HTML

[Peter S. <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 06:34 PM 1/19/03 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:23:22AM -0800, Peter Scott wrote:
> >Now, maybe I'm missing some more obvious way of doing it, and maybe
> >I'll find it when I think a bit more about a workaround, but what I'd
> >like to do right now is put something like
> >       <TMPL_VAR NAME="fred" VALUE="flintstone">
>
>Here's a problem with that approach: maybe you don't want the value
>displayed at the same point at which you set it?

Doh!

>I wrote an extension wrapper to HTML::Template which adds the <TMPL_SET>
>command for this reason; the syntax is much like your version, but it
>does not display the variable when it's being set. It's very basic but
>gets the job done.

Thanks, I'll check it out!  Er... where is it?  Doesn't appear to be 
listed under your CPAN id.

>One particular benefit of either of these approaches is that you can
>query the value of the variable, defined in the template, from the CGI
>script that's doing it.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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