Re: [htmltmpl] Numeric loops

[Dan H. <dan...@re...>]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:22 -0500, Karen wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Dan Horne <dan...@re...> wrote:
> 
>         Is there a way to loop from a lower integer to an higher one?
>         For example,
>         say an article has a rating of 4. I'd like to loop from 1 to 4
>         and print a
>         star at each iteration. The only way I can see of doing this
>         is create an 
>         array ref in the perl coder and pass that to the template,
>         which seems a lot
>         of pointless effort
> 

> 
> With (one assumes) a rating system with its own ceiling, though, you
> could go with img src="blahblah/star<TMPL_VAR name="rating">.gif" or
> what have you, and just have a set of graphics with star1.gif having
> one star, star2.gif having two stars, and so forth.

That would work. It's a shame that there isn't a regular loop construct,
as I'd like a solution for all sorts of loop instances (Looping through
the pagination indexes generated by Data::Page::Navigation for instance)

Dan