Re: [htmltmpl] Usage question

[Mark A. F. <mar...@ea...>]

From: Matias Alejo Garcia <ma...@ni...>
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>Is there any way to, once the $template is filled, to dump the variables to
>a file?

I may not understand this correctly. But, you can print your $template->output() to a file (instead of STDOUT). Give essentially static HTML to the designer. She'd have to open each one individually. You just "print FH $template->output()". If you want to do some preprocessing like change the CSS link to a disk file instead of an HTTP link you can do something like "my $html = $template->output()" and do a "$html =~ s/<whatever>/<something>/". Then print the $html variable to a file.

If you want to give the designer the actual templates (but not require her to install the entire application), you could write a little script that would load each template, set variables and ->output() it to a file. Something like a script to run through some test cases (generate the page with the user logged in, not logged in, with an error message, with a success message, with the "you have mail" indicator set, etc.). This way the designer could change the template and regenerate some HTML (without actually using the entire application).

Mark