On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Patrick Galbraith wrote: > Just wondering what the best templating system is to use and/or learn. > > I've briefly read up on the pros and cons of each, and am just wondering > which one is the most widely _used_ and best to learn if you're wanting to > know something that there are jobs for.
What's "best" depends on what your requirements are. As far as I can tell, the big ones are Template::Toolkit, Mason, and HTML::Template; each one makes different tradeoffs and makes different assumptions about the division of labor among programmers, web developers, & content producers. TT is probably the most flexible, but that or might not be what you want. Honestly, of the three I just listed, none of them are *that* complicated. If you want to learn these for job hunting purposes -- in which case it's not really fair to ask you what the requirements are, since you can't really know that -- you might as well experiment with all three. A good way to start might be by playing with different content management etc platforms that use these toolkits. From what I've read, the biggest examples I can think of are: * Slashcode (TT based, runs slashdot.org) * Bricolage (H::T, http://www.bricolage.cc/docs/Bric/HTMLTemplate.html, CMS used by theregister.co.uk et al) * Request Tracker (excellent ticketing system, runs http://rt.cpan.org/, home page is http://www.bestpractical.com/rt) Any of these can be downloaded & used freely. If you have the time for it, grab a copy of one or more and start playing around. Have fun :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/ drag'n'drop, v. To throw away your mouse after the first attempt to copy a file leads to its deletion. See also TRASH CAN. -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
