Template::Toolkit Plugins (was: Re: CGI::App::DBH or Ima::DBI)

On 2004-01-28, Brett Sanger <swiftone-odjg+bCo0yxg9hUCZPvPmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>
> With H::T I would find myself having to revise the C::A application when
> a display requirement changed, which broke the whole concept for me.
> (Granted, our display requirements changed fairly often, but that's a
> buisness reality where I am).
>
> I use plugins for things like my left rail navigation (which is based off of
> database entries), site maps (full and partial), dynamically displaying
> links to files in a directory, or basically anything that isn't the
> central point of the application, but is display-based in nature.  The
> templates remain very simple.

Looking at the TT plugins is where I start to get dis-illusioned with
the system. I several plugins for modules I already know how to use:

Template::Plugin::Number::Format
Template::Plugin::DBI
Template::Plugin::FillInForm

Heck, even:
Template::Plugin::HTML::Template

Maybe the cases you mention managing to be more design-specific. To me,
a number of these plugins look like the kind of examples of moving more
logic into the template that I'm hoping to avoid.

Instead, I prefer helper modules that transform data structures, and can
thus be useful with several templating systems:

Data::Grouper  -- for formating DBI results into nested loops
Data::PageSet  -- for creating paged results sets of data
Number::Format -- for formatting values.

I guess I'm still curious to see some actual code examples where TT
shines, without putting application logic into the templates.

        Mark

-- 
http://mark.stosberg.com/ 


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