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author Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org>
date Sat Oct 01 09:32:27 2022 +0000 (20 months ago)
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Hans-G?nter@24253 1 The Template Toolkit is a collection of Perl modules which implement a fast,
Hans-G?nter@24253 2 flexible, powerful and extensible template processing system.
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Hans-G?nter@24253 4 It is "input-agnostic" and can be used equally well for processing any kind
Hans-G?nter@24253 5 of text documents: HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, Perl code, plain text,
Hans-G?nter@24253 6 and so on.
Hans-G?nter@24253 7 However, it is most often used for generating static and dynamic web content,
Hans-G?nter@24253 8 so that's what we'll focus on here.
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Hans-G?nter@24253 10 Although the Template Toolkit is written in Perl, you don't need to be a Perl
Hans-G?nter@24253 11 programmer to use it. It was designed to allow non-programmers to easily
Hans-G?nter@24253 12 create and maintain template-based web sites without having to mess around
Hans-G?nter@24253 13 writing Perl code or going crazy with cut-n-paste.
Hans-G?nter@24253 14
Hans-G?nter@24253 15 However, the Template Toolkit is also designed to be extremely flexible and
Hans-G?nter@24253 16 extensible. If you are a Perl programmer, or know someone who is, then you
Hans-G?nter@24253 17 can easily hook the Template Toolkit into your existing code, data, databases
Hans-G?nter@24253 18 and web applications.
Hans-G?nter@24253 19 Furthermore, you can easily extend the Template Toolkit through the use of
Hans-G?nter@24253 20 its plugin mechanism and other developer APIs.
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Hans-G?nter@24253 22 Whatever context you use it in, the primary purpose of the Template Toolkit
Hans-G?nter@24253 23 is to allow you to create a clear separation between the presentation elements
Hans-G?nter@24253 24 of your web site and everything else.
Hans-G?nter@24253 25
Hans-G?nter@24253 26 If you're generating static web pages, then you can use it to separate the
Hans-G?nter@24253 27 commonly repeated user interface elements on each page (headers, menus,
Hans-G?nter@24253 28 footers, etc.) from the core content.
Hans-G?nter@24253 29 If you're generating dynamic web pages for the front end of a web application,
Hans-G?nter@24253 30 then you'll also be using it to keep the back-end Perl code entirely separate
Hans-G?nter@24253 31 from the front-end HTML templates.
Hans-G?nter@24253 32 Either way, a clear separation of concerns is what allow you to concentrate
Hans-G?nter@24253 33 on one thing at a time without the other things getting in your way.
Hans-G?nter@24253 34 And that's what the Template Toolkit is all about.