Introduction into SPIP - Simple Presentations In Perl

Templates 1

I use HTML::Template for creating the presentation files from the config and sheet data and from the templates in the templates directory.

I only use a few basic features of HTML::Template. I could have taken Template::Toolkit instead, but HTML::Template was already installed on the computer where I started to program SPIP and Template::Toolkit was not, so I took HTML::Template.

This are the features I use (there are more, see perldoc HTML::Toolkit):

• Inserting content:
  <TMPL_VAR NAME="VARNAME">.
  Here the value to the key VARNAME in the parameter hash of HTML::Template will be inserted into the created document.
• Test if a variable (key) exists:
  <TMPL_IF NAME="VARNAME">
  ...
  </TMPL_IF>
  All things between the two statements is only analyzed and inserted if the variable VARNAME exists. (That means if the key VARNAME exists in the parameter hash of HTML::Template.)
• Including other template files and analyze them:
  <TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="spip_head.tmpl">