Re: [htmltmpl] RFC: Objects in templates

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, michael wrote:

> And then the accompanying tmpl_vars in the templates. I was thinking about
> using  something similar to the way Template Toolkit handles it where I can
> just specify an object and then have H::T pull the attributes (or methods) as
> needed. Something like this...
>
> $tmpl->param(Obj => $obj);
>
> and then in the template have
>
> <tmpl_var name="Obj->att1"> <tmpl_var name="Obj->att2">... etc

I think it would be really easy to do this kind of thing in a
sub-class.  Just override param() to look for objects and turn them
into a set of "obj->attr" params.  I wouldn't use it but I bet some
people would.

-sam