Hi Templatinos, I'm looking for an easy way to solve a problem, which I'm currently facing. We have a HUGE bunch of default html_header, footer, etc files which tie into our legacy non-template system. They are all raw html with the exception of a couple of unconventioanl strings which get substituted into, in order to provide link uri's.
I initially wanted to just INCLUDE these files however, this wouldn't take care of the whole string substitution problem. My untidy wrapper for this was to write a plugin which did the file read and 'drop' into the template. There are some extra checks such as picking up a default language file where the i18n supported file doesn't exist. I don't like this adopted approach and would like to find a neater way around it. Is it easy to subclass template and write a personalised alternative to mimic the functionality of INCLUDE, but take a set of qr'd expressions to apply on it? Haven't looked at the code yet, but wanted to seek sound advice before going off on a wild - or inefficient - goose chase. Any ideas? I can't duplicate the headers and footers, etc, since there are SO many of them and there is a requirement that I remain compatible with the legacy format. Cheers, Rafiq _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
