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Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm)

NAME
Template::Plugin::Datafile - Plugin to construct records from a simple data file SYNOPSIS
[% USE mydata = datafile('/path/to/datafile') %] [% USE mydata = datafile('/path/to/datafile', delim = '|') %] [% FOREACH record = mydata %] [% record.this %] [% record.that %] [% END %] DESCRIPTION
This plugin provides a simple facility to construct a list of hash references, each of which represents a data record of known structure, from a data file. [% USE datafile(filename) %] A absolute filename must be specified (for this initial implementation at least - in a future version it might also use the "INCLUDE_PATH"). An optional "delim" parameter may also be provided to specify an alternate delimiter character. [% USE userlist = datafile('/path/to/file/users') %] [% USE things = datafile('items', delim = '|') %] The format of the file is intentionally simple. The first line defines the field names, delimited by colons with optional surrounding whitespace. Subsequent lines then defines records containing data items, also delimited by colons. e.g. id : name : email : tel abw : Andy Wardley : abw@tt2.org : 555-1234 sam : Simon Matthews : sam@tt2.org : 555-9876 Each line is read, split into composite fields, and then used to initialise a hash array containing the field names as relevant keys. The plugin returns a blessed list reference containing the hash references in the order as defined in the file. [% FOREACH user = userlist %] [% user.id %]: [% user.name %] [% END %] The first line of the file must contain the field definitions. After the first line, blank lines will be ignored, along with comment line which start with a '"#"'. BUGS
Should handle file names relative to "INCLUDE_PATH". Doesn't permit use of '":"' in a field. Some escaping mechanism is required. AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin perl v5.14.2 2011-12-20 Template::Plugin::Datafile(3pm)

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Template::Plugin::CGI(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Template::Plugin::CGI(3)

NAME
Template::Plugin::CGI - Interface to the CGI module SYNOPSIS
[% USE CGI %] [% CGI.param('parameter') %] [% USE things = CGI %] [% things.param('name') %] # see CGI docs for other methods provided by the CGI object DESCRIPTION
This is a very simple Template Toolkit Plugin interface to the "CGI" module. A "CGI" object will be instantiated via the following directive: [% USE CGI %] "CGI" methods may then be called as follows: [% CGI.header %] [% CGI.param('parameter') %] An alias can be used to provide an alternate name by which the object should be identified. [% USE mycgi = CGI %] [% mycgi.start_form %] [% mycgi.popup_menu({ Name => 'Color' Values => [ 'Green' 'Black' 'Brown' ] }) %] Parenthesised parameters to the "USE" directive will be passed to the plugin constructor: [% USE cgiprm = CGI('uid=abw&name=Andy+Wardley') %] [% cgiprm.param('uid') %] METHODS
In addition to all the methods supported by the "CGI" module, this plugin defines the following. params() This method returns a reference to a hash of all the "CGI" parameters. Any parameters that have multiple values will be returned as lists. [% USE CGI('user=abw&item=foo&item=bar') %] [% CGI.params.user %] # abw [% CGI.params.item.join(', ') %] # foo, bar AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin, CGI perl v5.16.3 2011-12-20 Template::Plugin::CGI(3)
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