On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm a newbie and need some help :-).
Welcome :-)
> It goes HEADING|DATE|NEWS, so, I want to use Template Toolkit to pass
> this data to my template file. Here is what I have so far, but, I
> can't figure out how to separate the data by the |'s and update my
> news.
The Datafile plugin could help you here. You need to add a header line to
your datafile with the field names in it, delimited the same way as the
data. In this case perhaps:
heading|date|news
Fill Me|4.19.2002|News filler cause what else do you write at 4AM? Only filler....
only filler.
Hurt|4.20.2002|I hit myself on the head today; still alive, will try again, tomorrow.
Then in your template you do:
[% USE mydata = datafile('/path/to/datafile', delim = '|') %]
[% FOREACH record = mydata %]
[% record.heading %] [% record.date %]
[% record.news %]
[% END %]
Eventually, you will want to prepare your data in perl before you call
your template as this gives you greater flexibility, but this plugin
allows you to get started straight away.
More details in the man page : perldoc Template::Manual::Datafile
> Also, Perl is the first language
> Ive ever tried to learn after HTML,
A fine choice and with TT you will have a very powerful way of creating
dynamic applications for the web.
> I would enjoy book suggestions:
Learning Perl is certainly excellent and I've heard good things about
Elements of Programming with Perl [1] from Manning too. Before you get too
far you'll probably want to get the Camel book (Programming Perl) which is
more of a reference manual but I've found it quite invaluable.
You should also check out www.pm.org and find a perlmongers group near
you, they will be able to help with any problems you might have with perl
in general (as well as being quite sociable :).
HTH,
Simon.
[1] http://www.manning.com/Johnson/index.html
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