You can include plugins you have defined yourself that are outside of @INC by specifying a relative (to the program that constructs a new Template object) path.
Supposing the following output of ls -R:
.:
Local index.pl
./Local:
MyPlugin.pm
...where one might use the module Local/MyPlugin.pm with ``use Local::MyPlugin;'', an argument to the constructor of ``PLUGIN_BASE => 'Local','' would allow you to say ``[% USE MyPlugin %]''.
A trivial example (using the proposed directory structure) may be illustrated, thus:
There's a book which explains all this very nicely, personally I found it easier-going than browsing the docs.
As for whether you should use your plugin-defining module elsewhere in your application, I can't see an obvious case where you'd want to use code that inherits from Template::Plugin::Base outside of the context of processing templates but, if you can, there's no particular reason you cannot. I would argue that it makes sense to keep your plugin logic packaged separately, if only to make its purpose obvious to a future maintainer.
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