Ron Savage wrote:
Hi Robert
Right. And to my taste HT is the one to swallow, with TT the one to spit
out.
If you care to elaborate I would like to know why?
HT is HTML::Template
TT is The Template Toolkit
Firstly, my choice was a decision taken years ago. It may well be
different if taken today.
o I found the complexity of TT's docs quite off-putting, although part of
the problem was the large quantity of docs, which of course is really a
good thing, even if so hard to navigate
That is probably true. I had to get the book to grasp some of it and I
am still grasping it.
o I had difficulty learning TT's way of doing things (again, which would
be different today), which is simply the way the author thinks and codes.
I see this from having written code based on his Pod::POM module [1]
o HT is simpler to grasp and utilize, since it corresponds more closely to
a 'little language' and hence is more immediately familiar. The
substitutions which take place in TT's processing of what you write are
more subtle, and more automagical, and hence more abstract, which mattered
greatly to me back then. For these reasons I'd recommend HT to first-time
users of these modules
[1] http://savage.net.au/Perl.html#fancy_pom2_pl
I am kind of drawn to the "simplicity" of HT and there is an article on
Perl.com about using "filters" with HT that looks cool.
I ran into the looping data problem though and even though I can turn
off checking and it runs it was just a little annoying.
Robert
P.S. The looping problem if I remember rightly was I was using one db
call to populate different fields in my templates and the loops were
dying because I had more "data" than declared in my "loops". In
otherwords I would pull out last, first and id but only loop over id and
HT didn't like that. I think that is the general gist of it. TT didn't
complain about it so I stick with TT.
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