On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 10:30 AM, Cees Hek wrote:
Quoting Puneet Kishor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
While templates are supposed to be (almost) pure html, I want to insert
comments in the templates (for my benefit... all those loops within
loops get confusing after a while) that I don't want printed in the
browser. Would be nice to have some kind of meta template comment tag
that is stripped out while filling the templates on the server.
Something like --
There are a couple of ways to do this already:
First, just use a TMPL_IF construct that is always false:
<TMPL_IF NAME="comment">
THis is a comment as long as the code never defines the variable 'comment'
</TMPL_IF>
or you could write a simple filter that strips out all your comments when you
load the template:
my $filter = sub { my $text_ref = shift; $$text_ref =~ s/\<\<\!\-\-.*?\-\-\>\>//g; };
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => $template_file, filter => $filter);
The second one is probably preferrable, but I would use something besides <<! >>
as the delimiters, Since they are not valid HTML, and also they are not easily
distinguishable from regular comments. Why not something like <!--SRV Here is a
server side comment -->
very nice... thanks for the tip. I will use
<!--# this is a server side comment -->
so my code editors will still colorize the comments as comments, it will remain valid html, and the # is, well, a recognizable server side comment.
cool.
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