plugins(3)
NAME
Template::Manual::Plugins - Standard plugins
DESCRIPTION
This section lists the standard plugins which can be used
to extend the runtime functionality of the Template
Toolkit. The plugins are distributed with the Template
Toolkit but may required additional modules from CPAN.
TEMPLATE TOOLKIT PLUGINS
The following plugin modules are distributed with the Tem
plate Toolkit. Some of the plugins interface to external
modules (detailed below) which should be downloaded from
any CPAN site and installed before using the plugin.
Autoformat
- The Autoformat plugin is an interface to Damian Conway's
Text::Autoformat Perl module which provides advanced text
wrapping and formatting. See Template::Plugin::Autoformat
and Text::Autoformat for further details. - [% USE autoformat(left=10, right=20) %]
[% autoformat(mytext) %] # call autoformat sub
[% mytext FILTER autoformat %] # or use autoformat - filter
- The Text::Autoformat module is available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/- CGI
- The CGI plugin is a wrapper around Lincoln Stein's
<lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu> CGI.pm module. The plugin is
distributed with the Template Toolkit (see Template::Plu
gin::CGI) and the CGI module itself is distributed with
recent versions Perl, or is available from CPAN.
[% USE CGI %]
[% CGI.param('param_name') %]
[% CGI.start_form %]
[% CGI.popup_menu( Name => 'color',Values => [ 'Green', 'Brown' ] ) %]- [% CGI.end_form %]
- Datafile
- Provides an interface to data stored in a plain text file
in a simple delimited format. The first line in the file
specifies field names which should be delimiter by any
non-word character sequence. Subsequent lines define data
using the same delimiter as int he first line. Blank
lines and comments (lines starting '#') are ignored. See
Template::Plugin::Datafile for further details. - /tmp/mydata:
# define names for each field
id : email : name : tel
# here's the data
fred : fred@here.com : Fred Smith : 555-1234
bill : bill@here.com : Bill White : 555-5678- example:
[% USE userlist = datafile('/tmp/mydata') %]- [% FOREACH user = userlist %]
[% user.name %] ([% user.id %])
- [% END %]
- Date
- The Date plugin provides an easy way to generate formatted
time and date strings by delegating to the POSIX strf_
time() routine. See Template::Plugin::Date and POSIX for further details.
[% USE date %]
[% date.format %] # current time/date- File last modified: [% date.format(template.modtime)
- %]
- Directory
- The Directory plugin provides a simple interface to a
directory and the files within it. See Template::Plu
gin::Directory for further details.
[% USE dir = Directory('/tmp') %]
[% FOREACH file = dir.files %]# all the plain files in the directory- [% END %]
[% FOREACH file = dir.dirs %]# all the sub-directories - [% END %]
- DBI
- The DBI plugin, developed by Simon Matthews <sam@knowl
edgepool.com>, brings the full power of Tim Bunce's
<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> database interface module (DBI) to
your templates. See Template::Plugin::DBI and DBI for
further details.
[% USE DBI('dbi:driver:database', 'user', 'pass') %]- [% FOREACH user = DBI.query( 'SELECT * FROM users' )
- %]
[% user.id %] [% user.name %]
- [% END %]
- The DBI and relevant DBD modules are available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/- Dumper
- The Dumper plugin provides an interface to the
Data::Dumper module. See Template::Plugin::Dumper and
Data::Dumper for futher details.
[% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="<br>") %]
[% dumper.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]- File
- The File plugin provides a general abstraction for files
and can be used to fetch information about specific files
within a filesystem. See Template::Plugin::File for fur
ther details.
[% USE File('/tmp/foo.html') %]
[% File.name %] # foo.html
[% File.dir %] # /tmp
[% File.mtime %] # modification time- Filter
- This module implements a base class plugin which can be
subclassed to easily create your own modules that define
and install new filters.
package MyOrg::Template::Plugin::MyFilter;- use Template::Plugin::Filter;
use base qw( Template::Plugin::Filter ); - sub filter {
my ($self, $text) = @_;# ...mungify $text...return $text;
- }
- # now load it...
[% USE MyFilter %] - # ...and use the returned object as a filter
[% FILTER $MyFilter %]... - [% END %]
- See Template::Plugin::Filter for further details.
- Format
- The Format plugin provides a simple way to format text
according to a printf()-like format. See Template::Plu gin::Format for further details.
[% USE bold = format('<b>%s</b>') %]
[% bold('Hello') %]- GD::Image, GD::Polygon, GD::Constants
- These plugins provide access to the GD graphics library
via Lincoln D. Stein's GD.pm interface. These plugins
allow PNG, JPEG and other graphical formats to be gener
ated.
[% FILTER null;USE im = GD.Image(100,100);
# allocate some colors
black = im.colorAllocate(0, 0, 0);
red = im.colorAllocate(255,0, 0);
blue = im.colorAllocate(0, 0, 255);
# Draw a blue oval
im.arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,blue);
# And fill it with red
im.fill(50,50,red);
# Output image in PNG format
im.png | stdout(1);- END;
- -%]
- See Template::Plugin::GD::Image for further details.
- GD::Text, GD::Text::Align, GD::Text::Wrap
- These plugins provide access to Martien Verbruggen's
GD::Text, GD::Text::Align and GD::Text::Wrap modules.
These plugins allow the layout, alignment and wrapping of
text when drawing text in GD images.
[% FILTER null;USE gd = GD.Image(200,400);
USE gdc = GD.Constants;
black = gd.colorAllocate(0, 0, 0);
green = gd.colorAllocate(0, 255, 0);
txt = "This is some long text. " | repeat(10);
USE wrapbox = GD.Text.Wrap(gd,line_space => 4,
color => green,
text => txt,);
wrapbox.set_font(gdc.gdMediumBoldFont);
wrapbox.set(align => 'center', width => 160);
wrapbox.draw(20, 20);
gd.png | stdout(1);- END;
- -%]
- See Template::Plugin::GD::Text, Template::Plu
gin::GD::Text::Align and Template::Plugin::GD::Text::Wrap
for further details. - GD::Graph::lines, GD::Graph::bars, GD::Graph::points, GD::Graph::linespoin ts, GD::Graph::area, GD::Graph::mixed, GD::Graph::pie
- These plugins provide access to Martien Verbruggen's
GD::Graph module that allows graphs, plots and charts to
be created. These plugins allow graphs, plots and charts
to be generated in PNG, JPEG and other graphical formats.
[% FILTER null;data = [["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th"],
[ 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3.5]];
USE my_graph = GD.Graph.pie(250, 200);
my_graph.set(title => 'A Pie Chart',
label => 'Label',
axislabelclr => 'black',
pie_height => 36,
transparent => 0,);
my_graph.plot(data).png | stdout(1);- END;
- -%]
- See Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::lines, Template::Plu
gin::GD::Graph::bars, Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::points,
Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::linespoints, Template::Plu
gin::GD::Graph::area, Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::mixed,
Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::pie, and GD::Graph, for more
details. - GD::Graph::bars3d, GD::Graph::lines3d, GD::Graph::pie3d
- These plugins provide access to Jeremy Wadsack's
GD::Graph3d module. This allows 3D bar charts and 3D
lines plots to be generated.
[% FILTER null;data = [["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th","8th", "9th"],
[ 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1.5, 1,3, 4],];
USE my_graph = GD.Graph.bars3d();
my_graph.set(x_label => 'X Label',
y_label => 'Y label',
title => 'A 3d Bar Chart',
y_max_value => 8,
y_tick_number => 8,
y_label_skip => 2,
# shadows
bar_spacing => 8,
shadow_depth => 4,
shadowclr => 'dred',
transparent => 0,my_graph.plot(data).png | stdout(1);- END;
- -%]
- See Template::Plugin::GD::Graph::lines3d, Template::Plu
gin::GD::Graph::bars3d, and Template::Plu
gin::GD::Graph::pie3d for more details. - HTML
- The HTML plugin is very new and very basic, implementing a
few useful methods for generating HTML. It is likely to
be extended in the future or integrated with a larger pro
ject to generate HTML elements in a generic way (as dis
cussed recently on the mod_perl mailing list).
[% USE HTML %]
[% HTML.escape("if (a < b && c > d) ..." %]
[% HTML.attributes(border => 1, cellpadding => 2) %]
[% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding =>- 2 }) %]
- See Template::Plugin::Iterator for further details.
- Iterator
- The Iterator plugin provides a way to create a Tem
plate::Iterator object to iterate over a data set. An
iterator is created automatically by the FOREACH directive
and is aliased to the 'loop' variable. This plugin allows
an iterator to be explicitly created with a given name, or
the default plugin name, 'iterator'. See Template::Plu
gin::Iterator for further details.
[% USE iterator(list, args) %]- [% FOREACH item = iterator %]
[% '<ul>' IF iterator.first %]
<li>[% item %]
[% '</ul>' IF iterator.last %] - [% END %]
- Pod
- This plugin provides an interface to the Pod::POD module
which parses POD documents into an internal object model
which can then be traversed and presented through the Tem
plate Toolkit.
[% USE Pod(podfile) %]- [% FOREACH head1 = Pod.head1;
FOREACH head2 = head1/head2;...END;
- END
- %]
- String
- The String plugin implements an object-oriented interface
for manipulating strings. See Template::Plugin::String
for further details.
[% USE String 'Hello' %]
[% String.append(' World') %]- [% msg = String.new('Another string') %]
[% msg.replace('string', 'text') %] - The string "[% msg %]" is [% msg.length %] characters
- long.
- Table
- The Table plugin allows you to format a list of data items
into a virtual table by specifying a fixed number of rows
or columns, with an optional overlap. See Template::Plu
gin::Table for further details.
[% USE table(list, rows=10, overlap=1) %]- [% FOREACH item = table.col(3) %]
[% item %]
- [% END %]
- URL
- The URL plugin provides a simple way of contructing URLs
from a base part and a variable set of parameters. See
Template::Plugin::URL for further details.
[% USE mycgi = url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', debug=1) %]- [% mycgi %]
# ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?debug=1
- [% mycgi(mode='submit') %]
# ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&debug=1
- Wrap
- The Wrap plugin uses the Text::Wrap module by David Muir
Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> (with help from Tim Pierce and
many many others) to provide simple paragraph formatting.
See Template::Plugin::Wrap and Text::Wrap for further
details.
[% USE wrap %]
[% wrap(mytext, 40, '* ', ' ') %] # use wrap sub
[% mytext FILTER wrap(40) -%] # or wrap FILTER - The Text::Wrap module is available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Text/ - XML::DOM
- The XML::DOM plugin gives access to the XML Document
Object Module via Clark Cooper <cooper@sch.ge.com> and
Enno Derksen's <enno@att.com> XML::DOM module. See Tem
plate::Plugin::XML::DOM and XML::DOM for further details.
[% USE dom = XML.DOM %]
[% doc = dom.parse(filename) %][% FOREACH node = doc.getElementsByTagName('CODEBASE')%]* [% node.getAttribute('href') %][% END %] - The plugin requires the XML::DOM module, available from
CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/ - XML::RSS
- The XML::RSS plugin is a simple interface to Jonathan
Eisenzopf's <eisen@pobox.com> XML::RSS module. A RSS
(Rich Site Summary) file is typically used to store short
news 'headlines' describing different links within a site.
This plugin allows you to parse RSS files and format the
contents accordingly using templates. See Template::Plu
gin::XML::RSS and XML::RSS for further details.
[% USE news = XML.RSS(filename) %][% FOREACH item = news.items %]<a href="[% item.link %]">[% item.title %]</a>[% END %] - The XML::RSS module is available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/ - XML::Simple
- This plugin implements an interface to the XML::Simple
module.
[% USE xml = XML.Simple(xml_file_or_text) %][% xml.head.title %] - See Template::Plugin::XML::Simple for further details.
- XML::Style
- This plugin defines a filter for performing simple
stylesheet based transformations of XML text.
[% USE xmlstyletable = {attributes = {border = 0
cellpadding = 4
cellspacing = 1}}%][% FILTER xmlstyle %]
<table>
<tr><td>Foo</td> <td>Bar</td> <td>Baz</td></tr>
</table>
[% END %] - See Template::Plugin::XML::Style for further details.
- XML::XPath
- The XML::XPath plugin provides an interface to Matt
Sergeant's <matt@sergeant.org> XML::XPath module. See
Template::Plugin::XML::XPath and XML::XPath for further
details.
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xmlfile) %]
[% FOREACH page = xpath.findnodes('/html/body/page')%][% page.getAttribute('title') %][% END %] - The plugin requires the XML::XPath module, available from
CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML/
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@andywardley.com>
<http://www.andywardley.com/|http://www.andywardley.com/>
VERSION
Template Toolkit version 2.08, released on 30 July 2002.
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Andy Wardley. All Rights Re
- served.
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe - Ltd.
- This module is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.