Perrin Harkins wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erich L. Markert wrote:
> > OK, I'm nearing the end of one project so I'm able to take a look at new
> > solutions so one question comes to mind. What does the template toolkit
> > offer above and beyond HTML::Embperl or some other templating solution?
>
> Well, keep in mind that TT does not try to provide an entire web
> programming framework. It is a templating system only. Neat tricks like
> automatic form state in Embperl are not built into it.
>
> However, it has a very complete syntax for dealing with templating, and is
> easy for HTML coders who don't know perl to use. Programming with it is
> usually as simple as dumping some data into a structure (which can be as
> complex as you nedd it to be) and passing it to TT. The new version is
> very fast, and it has a nice plugin framework for adding your own
> extensions to it.
I'll second that! The biggest reason I went with TT instead of Mason,
Embperl, or Apache::ASP is because our HTML production folks don't know
perl. However, we could (and did!) educate them on simple logic and
looping as available under TT. The benefit to me, the perl programmer
writting the modules, was that I had to do MUCH less work in my modules
then I had to do using HTML::Template. I could just let the HTML folks
figure things out, and TT gave them just enough power to do it.
While I would love to have the session management & form goodies of the
other template systems, our production people are not ready for it
(yet). Keep up the excellent work on these other frameworks - I might
get to use them one day. :-)
My $0.02.
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