On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Jason Purdy wrote: > 1) Class::DBI Integration > I'm just starting to pick up CDBI (I know, I'm late to the party ;)) and it's > kind of frustrating to get the data into the template. Or it could be made > easier. I'm not sure if we're talking Plugin or an update to the core, but > what would be really cool is to accept CDBI objects in the 'associate' > parameter: > > $user_record = CDBI::Subclass->retrieve( $primary_key ); > $template = $self->load_tmpl( > 'main.TMPL', > 'die_on_bad_params' => 0, > 'associate' => [ $query, $user_record ], > );
The associate feature is a pretty brutal hack as it is. I think you'd be better off creating a sub-class of HTML::Template which supported a new option like 'class_dbi' for this functionality. You could then call param() using some pre-defined translation between Class::DBI space and HTML::Template space. > Another cool tweak would be to HTML::Template such that you could do a search > on the CDBI object and just pass along the results: > > @results = CDBI::Subclass->search( > 'year' => '1980' > ); > $template->param( 'results' => [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); That should also be reasonably easy to do in a sub-class. > 2) Status Messages > In an app flow like A -> B -> A, I would like to have a status message on A > when B has been successfully processed, but what's the best way to do this? > Stuff the message in cgiapp's param? Pass along a param to the runmode > method? Then pass that to the template as a param? I wrote a message about this on the CGI-App mailing-list a while back. Let's see if I can find it. Here it is: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/msg01987.html I'm still planning to write that article... -sam ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
