They actually do neither ... they are templating modules and
have no responsibility of producing valid HTML - that's up
to the HTML coder. As for being overkill, well ... the more
you use these tools, the quicker you get at coding with
them. You can see an example that i am proud of over at
4Re: How do I extract text from an HTML page? that uses HTML::Template. The template is
stored inside DATA - creating a new H::T object that uses
the DATA filehandle is a snap:
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => \*DATA);
For the Template-Toolkit quick and simple scripts, check
out Inline::TT, it's slow as hell, but when you
combine it with Class::DBI you get some amazing
results. I am nearly finished with my C::D mini-tut that
will demonstrate using C::D with multiple tables, but here
is a snippet just to show you the power of the Class::DBI
and Template combo. (and by the way, i learned most of this
from How
to Avoid Writing Code and the
poop-group
mailing list)
use strict;
use warnings;
use DVD::movie;
use Inline 'TT';
print DVD(movies => [DVD::movie->retrieve_all]);
__DATA__
__TT__
[% BLOCK DVD %]
[% FOREACH movie = movies %]
<img src="http://dvd.unlocalhost.com/images/[% movie.id %].jpg" ali
+gn="right" />
<h2>[% movie.title %]</h2>
<ul>
<li> Year - [% movie.year %]</li>
<li>Added - [% movie.timestamp %]</li>
<li>Directors:</li>
<ul>
[% FOREACH director = movie.directors %]
<li>[% director.name %]</li>
[% END %]
</ul>
<li>Writers:</li>
<ul>
[% FOREACH writer = movie.writers %]
<li>[% writer.name %]</li>
[% END %]
</ul>
<li>Genres:</li>
<ul>
[% FOREACH genre = movie.genres %]
<li>[% genre.name %]</li>
[% END %]
</ul>
</ul>
<br clear="right" />
[% END %]
[% END %]
That's just too easy. ;)
jeffa
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