Perl Template Toolkit

Co-authored by Andy Wardley, the creator of the technology, Perl Template Toolkit is the first book on the market to provide in-depth coverage of the different aspects of installing, configuring, using and extending the Template Toolkit. The book includes tutorial information on how to use the Template Toolkit to quickly build web content, as well as how to generate and use data files, particularly with XML. It also provides detailed information on the Template Tookit's modules, libraries, and tools in addition to a complete reference manual.

Darren Chamberlain is an active member of the Template Toolkit development team.

David Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd., a London-based Perl Consultancy, and is also the author of the well-respected Data Munging with Perl.

Andy Wardley is the author of several CPAN modules including the Template Toolkit. He is a software researcher at the Canon Research Centre Europe and specializes in web-related technologies including dynamic content generation, web application frameworks, and the customization and localization of user interfaces and web content.

Preface

ix

Getting Started with the Template Toolkit

1

(32)

What the Template Toolkit Does

1

(3)

The Templating Ecosystem

4

(4)

Installing the Template Toolkit

8

(2)

Documentation and Support

10

(2)

Using the Template Toolkit

12

(9)

The Template Toolkit Language

21

(1)

Template Variables

22

(6)

Template Directives

28

(4)

Integrating and Extending the Template Toolkit

32

(1)

Building a Complete Web Site Using the Template Toolkit

33

(48)

Getting Started

34

(2)

Template Components

36

(3)

Defining Variables

39

(4)

Generating Many Pages

43

(6)

Adding Headers and Footers Automatically

49

(2)

More Template Components

51

(7)

Wrapper and Layout Templates

58

(8)

Menu Components

66

(6)

Defining and Using Complex Data

72

(7)

Assessment

79

(2)

The Template Language

81

(56)

Template Syntax

82

(13)

Template Variables

95

(24)

Virtual Methods

119

(18)

Template Directives

137

(39)

Accessing Variables

137

(3)

Accessing External Templates and Files

140

(7)

Defining Local Template Blocks

147

(1)

Loops

148

(5)

Conditionals

153

(2)

Filters

155

(1)

Plugins

156

(2)

Macros

158

(3)

Template Metadata

161

(2)

Exception Handling

163

(7)

Flow Control

170

(1)

Debugging

171

(1)

Perl Blocks

172

(4)

Filters

176

(19)

Using Filters

178

(1)

Standard Template Toolkit Filters

178

(17)

Plugins

195

(40)

Using Plugins

195

(1)

Standard Template Toolkit Plugins

196

(39)

Anatomy of the Template Toolkit

235

(51)

Template Modules

235

(10)

The Runtime Engine

245

(6)

Module Interfaces

251

(35)

Extending the Template Toolkit

286

(70)

Using and Implementing Noncore Components

286

(14)

Creating Filters

300

(11)

Creating Plugins

311

(27)

Building a New Frontend

338

(9)

Changing the Language

347

(9)

Accessing Databases

356

(19)

Using the DBI Plugin

356

(7)

Using Class::DBI

363

(4)

Using DBIx::Table2Hash

367

(8)

XML

375

(18)

Simple XML Processing

375

(2)

Creating XML Documents

377

(3)

Processing RSS Files with XML.RSS

380

(3)

Processing XML Documents with XML.DOM

383

(3)

Processing XML Documents with XML.XPath

386

(2)

Processing XML Documents with XML.LibXML

388

(1)

Using Views to Transform XML Content

388

(5)

Advanced Static Web Page Techniques

393

(73)

Getting Started

393

(13)

Library Templates

406

(8)

Content Templates

414

(8)

Navigation Components

422

(18)

Structuring Page Content

440

(15)

Creating a New Skin

455

(11)

Dynamic Web Content and Web Applications

466

(51)

CGI Scripts

466

(20)

CGI Templates

486

(5)

Apache and mod_perl

491

(5)

A Complete Web Application

496

(21)

Appendix: Configuration Options

517

(40)

Index

557

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Perl Template Toolkit

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