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1 Text::CPPTemplate(3) gedafe Text::CPPTemplate(3)
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5 NAME
6 Text::CPPTemplate - CPP-Style Templates
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8 SYNOPSIS
9 use Text::CPPTemplate;
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11 my $templ = new Text::CPPTemplate('/var/web/templates','.html');
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13 print $templ->template({
14 PAGE => 'index',
15 ELEMENT => 'header',
16 TITLE => 'Test'
17 });
18
19 DESCRIPTION
20 CPPTemplate is a templating system using a CPP-style (C
21 Pre-Processor) syntax. CPPTemplate is quite fast so that
22 it can be used in online Applications such as CGI scripts
23 to separate program the code from the HTML. CPPTemplate is
24 not HTML specific, so it can be used for other applica-
25 tions. For performance reasons, the files containing the
26 templates are read only once and are cached for further
27 use. This is especially handy when working with long run-
28 ning scripts which use the same template over and over
29 again. Apache mod_perl is such an environment.
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31 An application can use a large number of templates. They
32 could for example represent different parts of output gen-
33 erated by the aplication. Each template can contain vari-
34 ables and CPP style if-then-else structures. When the
35 template gets activated, all the variables will get sub-
36 stituted and the if-then-else structures will get pro-
37 cessed.
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39 FILE NAMES
40 When you activate a template, you do not specify a
41 file-name, but only variables. Based on the contents of
42 some special variables, CPPTemplate will try to load an
43 apropriate template file from disk. It tries to do this
44 using a number of different file-names. The first one to
45 exist will be used. A directory where the templates
46 reside and a suffix have to be specified with the "new"
47 method. The following list shows which variables cause
48 CPPTemplate to look for which files:
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50 o PAGE_ELEMENT (PAGE and ELEMENT are variables)
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52 o ELEMENT
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54 o PAGE
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56 o "default" (as is, not a variable)
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58 In addition, if THEME is specified, the template will be
59 first searched in the subdirectory specified by that vari-
60 able of the templates directory.
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62 In the example given in SYNOPSIS, the following files will
63 be opened in turn until one is found to exist (in the
64 directory /var/web/templates): index_header.html,
65 header.html, index.html and default.html.
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67 VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION
68 Variables are marked "##var##" in the templates. If no
69 variable is found with that specified name, the ##var##
70 text remains unchanged.
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72 CPP-STYLE DIRECTIVES
73 "MiniCPP" directives permit the selection of parts of the
74 template based on some condition. The language is very
75 very basic, it seems to be good-enough for most applica-
76 tions. The following directives are supported:
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78 "// comment"
79 The whole line is removed from the output
80
81 "#ifdef VAR"
82 If variable VAR is defined, the following text will be
83 selected.
84
85 "#if expr"
86 If the expression "expr" evaluates to true (see
87 "EXPRESSIONS"), the following text will be selected.
88 You can use substitutions in the expression with the
89 syntax '##VAR##'.
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91 "#elif expr"
92 If the previous "#if" (or "#elif") expression was
93 false, evaluate this "expr" and if true select the
94 following text.
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96 "#else"
97 If the previous "#if" (or "#elif") expression was
98 false, select the following text.
99
100 "#endif"
101 Ends an "#ifdef" or an "#if".
102
103 Note that these elements can be nested.
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105 The newlines will be removed unless two consecutive lines
106 without MiniCPP directives are found. Spaces and tabs will
107 be removed from the beginning and the end of each line.
108 Use '\ ' (backslash space) to insert spaces at the begin-
109 ning or the end of the line.
110
111 EXPRESSIONS
112 At the moment only the following expressions are supported
113 (don't laugh :-))
114
115 A = B
116 If A is equal to B (the text), then the expression is
117 true.
118
119 A ~ B
120 Match A against the regular expression (perl) B. True
121 if it does match, false otherwise.
122
123 EXAMPLE
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133 #if ##ELEMENT## = ruler
134 <HR>
135 #elif ##ELEMENT## = buttons
136 #ifdef ADD_URL
137 <A href="##ADD_URL##">Add</A>
138 #endif
139 #ifdef PREV_URL
140 <A href="##PREV_URL##">Prev</A>
141 #endif
142 #ifdef NEXT_URL
143 <A href="##NEXT_URL##">Next</A>
144 #endif
145 </P>
146 #endif
147
148 PER-METHOD DOCUMENTATION
149 "new($templates_dir, $suffix)"
150 Create a new CPPTemplate object. $templates_dir is the
151 directory where the templates are stored and $suffix
152 is a text to append to the file-names.
153
154 "template(\%vars)"
155 Return a processed template. "\%vars" is a hashref
156 containing the variables used for building the
157 file-name, for the substitutions and the CPP-style
158 directives.
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160 SEE ALSO
161 Text::TagTemplate(3)
162
163 COPYRIGHT
164 Copyright (c) 2000 ETH Zurich, All rights reserved.
165
166 LICENSE
167 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
168 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
169 License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
170 either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
171 later version.
172
173 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
174 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
175 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
176 PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
177 details.
178
179 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
180 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
181 Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
182 02139, USA. This library is free software; you can redis-
183 tribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
184 Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
185 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
186 (at your option) any later version.
187
188 AUTHOR
189 David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch>, Tobi Oetiker
190 <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
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194 0.3 2000-10-22 Text::CPPTemplate(3)

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