Re^4: Code and html separation - always or mostly doable?

[Michalis]

I thought I'ld let it as an exercise, but...
If I use bgcolor as integer, not boolean, I can easily do that:

<td class="color[:bgcolor:]">....</td>

So I can not only define classes color1,color2 etc, but if in the future we decide we want a 57th special case we haven't thought of before, we don't need to change any code, we just create a class57 and "feed" the bgcolor with the number 57.
As I said before, there is always a matter of good analysis in order to trully and forever seperate perl code (business logic) from presentation (I consider the loops and if/then/else cases in the final HTML pages to be presentation-specific and not business specific)

[saberworks]

It's an interesting approach, and I like it better than mine, however, I still feel like it's forcing me to "mess with" display logic in the template. I have to start setting bgcolor hash entries which are nothing more than display logic in my data hash. Imagine if I wanted every third row italicized, bolded, or underlined. I'd have to do the same thing (pass it a class in my perl code). Thanks for your help and interesting solutions, I just wish there was a better way. A way in which I can pass the results say directly from fetchall_arrayref to the template and have the template worry about setting the colors.