Cool. I was unaware how the stash worked. I can see the benefit of encapsulating each component. Thanks!
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Tomas Doran wrote: > > On 25 Jul 2008, at 13:40, James S. White wrote: > > > I was trying to munge the paramaters in the controller, I just > > can't figure > > out how to access the variables of a controller method in the > > template. I'd > > be more than happy to pass the argument to a controller, and then > > have the > > view fetch it from the controller, and then the template read it > > from the view, > > If I had any idea how to dereference the variables in order to set > > them in > > new components. I was just trying to keep it walk before running > > and I keep > > tripping over my feet. > > > > You want to put the data into the 'stash'. > > So in your controller you have: > my ( $self, $c, $arg ) = @_; > $arg =~ s/stuff/munge/; > $c->stash->{somearg} = $arg; > > And in your view, you say: [% c.stash.somearg %] > > You don't really want the view to be able to see the controller's > internal state / mechanics, and so you have to explicitly stash any > data which you want to be able to see from the view. > > HTH > t0m > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/