Re: [htmltmpl] Including templates where the name is dtermined at run time

[simran <sim...@re...>]

> Dan Horne wrote:
> > Hi all
> >  
> > I wish to include a template within another template. However, the 
> > template name to be included is determined at run time. I've tried:
> >  
> > <TMPL_INCLUDE NAME=SUB_CONTENT>
> >  
> > but I get "Cannot open included file SUB_CONTENT : file not found"
> >  
> > I tried
> >  
> > <TMPL_INCLUDE NAME=<TMPL_VAR NAME=SUB_CONTENT>>
> >  
> > but that doesn't parse (as I expected).
> >  
> > Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Not in the way that you want to do it. That would, in essence 
> require H::T to do two passes when parsing which it doesn't do. 
> What you would have to do is process the first template (whose 
> name is determined at run time) and keep the output in a scalar. 
> Then load this scalar into the second, outer template.

Excellent suggestion.. the other way would be to use a filter
(HTML::Template docs for more details...)