Unless I misread the docs and added unnecessary default statements in my first foray with TT2, if you use a [% USE CGI %] and the appropriate CGI calls with the TT2 document, it's as sticky as perl's CGI.pm calls.

Update Expanding as requested by boo below:

If I write this template and call it from my perl code as given:

[% USE CGI %]
[% CGI.header %]
[% CGI.h1( "Hello World!" ) %]
[% CGI.start_form %]
[% CGI.textbox( { name=>"text" } ) %]
[% CGI.submit %]
[% CGI.end_form %]
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Then in effect, ignoring template substitutions that may happen, it is the same as this perl code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header(),
      $q->h1( "Hello World!" ),
      $q->start_form(),
      $q->textbox( -name=>"text" ),
      $q->submit,
      $q->end_form;
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Specifically, the CGI object as created by TT2 acts just like the CGI object in perl, and thus knows how to capture the passed parameters and knows how to fill in default values. There's minimal docs on this here, but from my experience working with it, that appears to be the case. Please note the code above is OTTOMH, only to demonstrat the point.

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