Re: [webmin-devel] html templates ok?

[<be...@ge...>]

can do
-ben
Joe Cooper said:
> No.  web-lib isn't getting templating.  I was just mentioning the new
> gui functions.  But if you want templates, use your favorite template
> module.
>
> Just use the already existing Perl Modules module to install it if the
> user doesn't have it, rather than reinventing the wheel and doing
> something without the users knowledge.  An example of this can be found
> in the LDAP module.
>
> be...@ge... wrote:
>> I'm not sure what your talking about with the web-lib thing, but I'm
>> accustom to writing html using templates.  That is, one file for html
>> with special denotation for variables, and then another file to assign
>> the vars, and repeat blocks of html and such.  Is that what your
>> talking about with web-lib?
>> -ben
>> Joe Cooper said:
>>
>>>Don't auto-download anything.  Do what Jamie has done in the LDAP
>>> module, for example...Check for the module, and if it doesn't exist,
>>> allow the user to use the Perl Modules module to install it.  You
>>> don't need to reinvent the wheel in this case.  Jamie's already rolls
>>> quite nicely.
>>>
>>>I'll also mention that Jamie has started a simple set of GUI routines
>>> in
>>> web-lib.  One can hope that they will soon provide simple calls for
>>> the most common GUI elements and you won't need to use separate
>>> modules,
>>>and  theme designers can replace the functions on an as-needed basis
>>> to modify GUI elements.
>>>
>>>be...@ge... wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm currently developing with HTML:Template, but I had to use CPAN to
>>>> download and install the module.  Should I add an auto-download sort
>>>> of script so that if they don't have HTML:Template, it will go and d=
o
>>>> it?  And yes, I'm calling header and footer.  I'm just tired of
>>>> writing html and cgi all in one file.
>>>>-ben
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