You already have a couple of options that you can use, but CGI::Application::Plugin::TT gives you some extra possibilities as well. You can create a 'tt_pre_process' method in your CGI::Application module, which will be called automatically everytime you call $self->tt_process. This is useful for adding extra global variables that you want to appear in every template you parse in your application.
sub tt_pre_process {
my ($self, $file, $vars) = @_;
$vars->{user} = $ENV{REMOTE_USER};
$vars->{menu} = [
{ text => 'Foo',
link => 'foo.html', },
{ text => 'Bar',
link => 'Bar.html', },
];
return;
}
Alternatively, you can setup a tt_pre_process method as a callback (requires CGI::Application 4.0 or greater).
__PACKAGE__->add_callback('tt_pre_process', sub {
my ($self, $file, $vars) = @_;
$vars->{user} = $ENV{REMOTE_USER};
$vars->{menu} = [
{ text => 'Foo',
link => 'foo.html', },
{ text => 'Bar',
link => 'Bar.html', },
];
return;
});