Perl Template Toolkit

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Pub. Date: 2004-03-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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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