Re: IF in a loop using HTML::Template

[kielstirling]

In your template when you look for the param 'test' you are in the data loop.
tmpl_loops take a arrayref of hashref
ie,

$tmpl->param(data=>[{test=>1, foo=>1, bar=>1}]);

My understanding is that you can't refer to params outside of the loop. Like you are doing with the test param.
-Kiel

[Anonymous Monk]

Is there any documentation on this issue somewhere?

[kielstirling]

From the POD ...

Inside a <TMPL_LOOP>, the only variables that are usable are the ones from the <TMPL_LOOP>. The variables in the outer blocks are not visible within a template loop. For the computer-science geeks among you, a <TMPL_LOOP> introduces a new scope much like a perl subroutine call. If you want your variables to be global you can use global_vars option to new() described below.

HTML::Template
-Kiel

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you all, now back to the drawing board!

[Anonymous Monk]

I meant that because I'm using this logic with CGI::Application, I need to research on the global variable case since it will be in a subroutine as in my first sample code posted earlier.

[Anonymous Monk]

I found what I needed based on information from you, by adding this line: "global_vars=1" - It treats parameters sent to the template as global.

my $t=HTML::Template->new(filename=>'temp.tmpl', global_vars => 1,);

Thanks again for pointing me to the right direction!