One of the places for whom I work uses Perl for all of its development
and, when I first joined about 8 months ago, had all the HTML for
dynamic pages embedded in the CGI code. My supervisor had tried using
Mason before and was unsatisfied with it so I convinced him to give the
module HTML::Template a try. We are now in the process of converting
the pages in what i believe is a huge step forward. I've been using it
for about a year now (started using it for another client), and I
really love it. In fact, our adoption of it came in part because we
had signed a contract with another website that wanted us to recreate
some our pages with their branding and run it on our site. Without
adopting separating out the content, I doubt we could have met the
terms of the contract in the time period specified and, even if we had,
maintenance would have been a pain.
HTML::Template works by inserting tags similar to HTML tags into the
HTML document and then importing the document into the cgi, replacing
the tags with the relevant data, and outputting revised HTML code. It
also supports conditional statements (if..else, unless..else, etc) and
loops and supports nesting. All the HTML person would have to know is
a handful of template tags, only one or two if you don't need
conditionals or loops. We have also used the module in the creation of
our HTML emails. If there is any interest, I can post here or on my
website an example or two of how I've used it (no guarantees that it
will be pretty or the best possible example) but Sam Tregar's article
on the SourceForge site has examples. More information can be found at
http://html-template.sourceforge.net.
HTH,
Tracy Hurley
programmer - http://www.idofoundation.org
http://www.hurleyit.com
On Jan 18, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Bob Mariotti wrote:
Perhaps some readers can post some small examples of a PHP and/or perl
program(s) that actually do what Uri was just stating... that being
the separation of text (html) from logic (PHP/perl)?
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