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NAME

Template::Plugin::Next - include the 'next' template file with identical relative path

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

This is a plugin for the Template Toolkit distribution that allows the inclusion of template files with identical relative paths like the present template. Those templates are 'hidden' by the present template, because their respective INCLUDE_PATH entries are dominated by the one of the including template.

The functionality provided by this plugin might come handy in multi skin situations where default templates are selectively redefined by a skin using a dominating INCLUDE_PATH entry for the skin and identical relative paths to the templates as with the default templates - thus hiding them.

The Next-plugin allows to include the dominated default templates from inside the hiding template in order to decorate the default template or include a parameterized version of it.

Example:

# We assume: INCLUDE_PATH='/templates/c:/templates/b:/templates/a'

# template a/test.tt (note this template accepts a "parameter" called 'repeat'):
[% repeat = repeat || 1; 'a' | repeat(repeat) %]

# template b/test.tt:
b
[% USE Next;
   Next.include( repeat => 3 );
%]
b

# template c/test.tt:
c
[% USE Next;
   Next.include();
%]
c

# a call to template test.tt
[% INCLUDE test.tt %]

# would yield something like the following (with POST_CHOMP set to 1):

c
b
aaa
b
c

EXPORT

Exported stash variable: Next_

METHODS

process

Includes the 'next' dominated template with an identical relative path like the one this plugin method is called from. It accepts named parameters like its TT directive counterpart PROCESS that will result in stash variables.

include

Same as process() but with stash localisation.

CAVEATS

  • INCLUDE_PATH stability is required during a single call to Template::process().

  • Only template providers of class Template::Provider are supported.

AUTHOR

Alexander Kühne, <alexk at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-template-plugin-next at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Template-Plugin-Next. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Template::Plugin::Next

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Alexander Kühne, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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