Re: [htmltmpl] Feature Idea [TMPL_VIRTUAL]

[Mathew R. <mat...@ne...>]

Hi Jason,

Are you simply looking for something like TMPL_INCLUDE ?

Mathew

Jason Purdy wrote:
> Thanks for the thoughts!
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here.  If you're saying
> you can just use nested TMPL_VARs, then I think you may be missing my
> point.  Your code:
>
> > my $ht = new H::T(filename => "helloworld.tmpl");
> # Don't forget you need to also put together $ht's parameters
> > my $helloworld = $ht->output();
> > $ht = new H::T(filename => "index.tmpl");
> > $ht->param("helloworld" => $helloworld);
> > $ht->output();
>
> Whereas if you had something like TMPL_VIRTUAL, you could eliminate
> the first 3 lines (or more) of code since the index.tmpl would have a
> TMPL_VIRTUAL to point to a cgi script that put together the output of
> helloworld.tmpl.
>
> Hmm - I think I may have just realized what you were talking about,
> but this whole feature wouldn't be useful for including nested
> templates, but rather the output from a URL (i.e. a cgi script, php
> page, etc)
>
> Sorry for the rambling ... this whole email may not make sense ...
> haven't digested my coffee yet! ;)
>
> - Jason
>
>
> Mathew Robertson wrote:
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> I personally think this is a good idea, especially if it was provided
>> by a plugin (which means other TMPL_xxx's would also be possible).
>>
>>
>> In this case probably what you want is to use a TMPL_VAR which
>> contains the output of a seperate H::T instance, as in:
>>
>> my $ht = new H::T(filename => "helloworld.tmpl");
>> my $helloworld = $ht->output();
>> $ht = new H::T(filename => "index.tmpl");
>> $ht->param("helloworld" => $helloworld);
>> $ht->output();
>>
>> or something like that, ie: generate your virtual's before generating
>> your output.
>>
>> Mathew
>>
>>
>> Jason Purdy wrote:
>>> How about a new tag, either as part of the standard distribution or
>>> a plugin:
>>>
>>> TMPL_VIRTUAL
>>>
>>> The one thing that I like when I'm doing PHP pages is that I can
>>> build singular dynamic components and simply include them from the
>>> parent template.
>>>
>>> i.e.
>>>
>>> # FILE: index.php
>>> <? virtual( 'helloworld.php' ); ?>
>>>
>>>
>>> # FILE: helloworld.php
>>> <? print "Hello World!"; ?>
>>>
>>> Yes, I know about Philipp's Widgets articles[1] on perl.com, but you
>>> still need to put the encapsulation logic in your code, which seems
>>> redundant.
>>>
>>> How about if the HTML_VIRTUAL called LWP to request the URL and
>>> replace the tag w/ the response's content?
>>>
>>> # FILE: index.TMPL
>>> <!-- TMPL_VIRTUAL URL="helloworld.php" -->
>>>
>>> # FILE: helloworld.php
>>> <? print "Hello World!"; ?>
>>>
>>> - Jason
>>>
>>> [1]: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/02/02/htmltemplate-widgets.html
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