Re: [htmltmpl] enhancements to H::T

[Timm M. <tm...@ag...>]

At 05:55 PM 12/10/03 +1100, Mathew Robertson wrote:
><>
>In a template you may do something like:
>
><TMPL_IF user>
>     <TMPL_IF user.name>
>        <TMPL_VAR user.name.first> <TMPL_VAR user.name.last>
>     </TMPL_IF>
>     <TMPL_IF user.address>
>         <TMPL_VAR user.address.street>
>         <TMPL_VAR user.address.town>
>     </TMPL_IF>
></TMPL_IF>
>
>
>Normally your code would look something like:
>
>if (length $user->name->first or $user->name->last ) {
>    $tmpl->param ('user' => 1);
>    $tmpl->param ('user.name' => 1);
>    $tmpl->param ('user.name.first' => $user->name->first );
>    $tmpl->param ('user.name.last' => $user->name->last );
>}
>if (length $user->address->street or $user->address->town) {
>    $tmpl->param ('user' => 1);
>    $tmpl->param ('user.address' => 1);
>    $tmpl->param ('user.address.street' => $user->address->street);
>    $tmpl->param ('user.address.town' => $user->address->town);
>}
>
>
>With the 'structure_vars' support you can do this:
>
>$tmpl->param( 'user.name.first' = $user->name->first );
>$tmpl->param( 'user.name.last' = $user->name->last );
>$tmpl->param( 'user.address.street' = $user->address->street );
>$tmpl->param( 'user.address.town' = $user->address->town );

Actually, you'd just do this:

$tmpl->param( user => $user );

And H::T would take care of calling the necessary methods for you.