At 9:46 AM -0500 4/25/11, Chap Harrison wrote:
I'm not saying that an introduction to templates belongs in the
module documentation, but can you (or somebody else) tell me what,
generically, a "Template" module is for?
A Template is a method for generating files with dynamic content. In
this context, a template module takes a template file that has some
special formatting information in it and a set of data supplied by
the caller. The module reads the file and, using the suppled data,
replaces the special formatting with the data. For example, you could
generate a form letter with somebody's name and address using a
template. The special formatting information can be very simple, such
as simple variables, or more complex with conditionals and loops.
This is a common technique for generating web pages using data from a database.
Wikipedia is not much help here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_(software_engineering)>
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