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NAME

Template::Plugin::URL - constructs query URL's with parameters

SYNOPSIS

[% USE url('/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]

[% url(debug = 1, id = 123) %]
   # ==> /cgi/bin/foo.pl?debug=1&id=123


[% USE mycgi = url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]

[% mycgi %]
   # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&debug=1

[% mycgi(mode='submit') %]
   # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&debug=1

[% mycgi(debug='d2 p0', id='D4-2k[4]') %]
   # ==> /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&debug=d2%20p0&id=D4-2k%5B4%5D

DESCRIPTION

The URL plugin can be used to construct complex URLs from a base stem and a hash array of additional query parameters.

The constructor should be passed a base URL and optionally, a hash array reference of default parameters and values. Used from with a Template Documents, this would look something like the following:

[% USE url('http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]
[% USE url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse') %]
[% USE url('/cgi-bin/baz.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]

When the plugin is then called without any arguments, the default base and parameters are returned as a formatted query string.

[% url %]

For the above three examples, these will produce the following outputs:

http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl
/cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse
/cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1

Additional parameters may be also be specified:

[% url(mode='submit', id='wiz') %]

Which, for the same three examples, produces:

http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl?mode=submit&id=wiz
/cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&id=wiz
/cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1&id=wiz

A new base URL may also be specified as the first option:

[% url('/cgi-bin/waz.pl', test=1) %]

producing

/cgi-bin/waz.pl?test=1
/cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&test=1
/cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1&test=1

The ordering of the parameters is non-deterministic due to fact that Perl's hashes themselves are unordered. This isn't a problem as the ordering of CGI parameters is insignificant (to the best of my knowledge). All values will be properly escaped thanks to some code borrowed from Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm. e.g.

[% USE url('/cgi-bin/woz.pl') %]
[% url(name="Elrich von Benjy d'Weiro") %]

Here the spaces and "'" character are escaped in the output:

/cgi-bin/woz.pl?name=Elrich%20von%20Benjy%20d%27Weiro

Alternate name may be provided for the plugin at construction time as per regular Template Toolkit syntax.

[% USE mycgi = url('cgi-bin/min.pl') %]

[% mycgi(debug=1) %]

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>

REVISION

$Revision: 2.0 $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000 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,