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<h1 class="headline">Template::Toolkit</h1>
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The Template Toolkit is a collection of Perl modules which implement a
fast, flexible, powerful and extensible template processing system.
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It is "input-agnostic" and can be used equally well for processing any
kind of text documents: HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, Perl code, plain
text, and so on. However, it is most often used for generating static and
dynamic web content, so that's what we'll focus on here.
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Although the Template Toolkit is written in Perl, you don't need to be a
Perl programmer to use it. It was designed to allow non-programmers to
easily create and maintain template-based web sites without having to
mess around writing Perl code or going crazy with cut-n-paste.
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However, the Template Toolkit is also designed to be extremely flexible
and extensible. If you are a Perl programmer, or know someone who is,
then you can easily hook the Template Toolkit into your existing code,
data, databases and web applications. Furthermore, you can easily extend
the Template Toolkit through the use of its plugin mechanism and other
developer APIs.
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Whatever context you use it in, the primary purpose of the Template
Toolkit is to allow you to create a clear separation between the
presentation elements of your web site and everything else.
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If you're generating static web pages, then you can use it to separate
the commonly repeated user interface elements on each page (headers,
menus, footers, etc.) from the core content. If you're generating dynamic
web pages for the front end of a web application, then you'll also be
using it to keep the back-end Perl code entirely separate from the
front-end HTML templates. Either way, a <i>clear separation of
concerns</i> is what allow you to concentrate on one thing at a time
without the other things getting in your way. And that's what the
Template Toolkit is all about.
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The documentation for the Template Toolkit is organised into four
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The <a href="/manual/index.html">Template::Manual</a>
contains detailed information about using the Template Toolkit. It gives
examples of its use and includes a full reference of the template
language, configuration options, filters, plugins and other component
parts.
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The <a href="/modules/index.html">Template::Modules</a> page lists the Perl modules that comprise the
Template Toolkit. It gives a brief explanation of what each of them does,
and provides a link to the complete documentation for each module for
further information. If you're a Perl programmer looking to use the
Template Toolkit from your Perl programs then this section is likely to
be of interest.
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Most, if not all of the information you need to call the Template Toolkit
from Perl is in the documentation for the <a href="/modules/Template.html">Template</a> module. You only really need to
start thinking about the other modules if you want to extend or modify
the Template Toolkit in some way, or if you're interested in looking
under the hood to see how it all works.
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The documentation for each module is embedded as POD in each module, so
you can always use <code>perldoc</code> from the command line to read a
module's documentation. e.g.
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<pre>$ perldoc Template
$ perldoc Template::Context
...etc...</pre>
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It's worth noting that all the other documentation, including the user
manual is available as POD. e.g.
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<pre>$ perldoc Template::Manual
$ perldoc Template::Manual::Config
...etc...</pre>
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The <a href="/tools/index.html">Template::Tools</a>
section contains the documentation for <a
href="#section_tpage">Template::Tools::tpage</a> and <a
href="#section_ttree">Template::Tools::ttree</a>. These are two command
line programs that are distributed with the Template Toolkit. <a
href="/tools/tpage.html">tpage</a> is used to
process a single template file, <a href="/tools/ttree.html">ttree</a> for processing entire
directories of template files.
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The <a href="/tutorial/index.html">Template::Tutorial</a> section contains two introductory tutorials
on using the Template Toolkit. The first is <a href="/tutorial/Web.html">Template::Tutorial::Web</a> on
generating web content. The second is <a href="/tutorial/Datafile.html">Template::Tutorial::Datafile</a> on using the Template Toolkit to
generate other data formats including XML.
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All of the documentation is also provided in HTML format in the
<i>docs</i> sub-directory of the Template Toolkit distribution. You can
also read it online at the Template Toolkit web site: <a
href="http://template-toolkit.org/">http://template-toolkit.org/</a>
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The Template Toolkit was written by <a href="http://wardley.org/">Andy
Wardley</a> <abw@wardley.org> with assistance and contributions
from a great number of people. Please see <a href="/manual/Credits.html">Template::Manual::Credits</a>
for a full list.
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Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
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<a href="/modules/Template.html">Template</a>, <a href="/manual/index.html">Template::Manual</a>, <a href="/modules/index.html">Template::Modules</a>, <a href="/tools/index.html">Template::Tools</a>, <a href="/tutorial/index.html">Template::Tutorial</a>
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