Hi, Each day I learn more ways to use tt. But now I have stumbled upon something and I was wondering what route to go...
I want to set up a number of macro's for often-used template snippets. Like to bind a variable to a html input field. I often find myself writing the same code over and over again, like: <input type="text" name="zipcode" value="[% form.zipcode %]"> So what I did was first make a macro file: ________ ttapp.macro _________ [% TAGS <+ +> %] <+ MACRO ttinput_text BLOCK +> <input type="text" name="<+ name +>" value="[% form.<+ name +> %]"> <+ END +> Then a use the macro like so: _________ myform.template___________ [% PROCESS ttapp.macro %] [% ttinput_text (name='zipcode') %] ... What I get after processing is: <input type="text" name="zipcode" value="[% form.zipcode %]"> What I want however is ( with 96411 being the actual value of form.zipcode ): <input type="text" name="zipcode" value="96411"> So what I need is that the macro is expanded first with the actual parameters of the invocation (here: 'zipcode') to new template text and that *this* new source is being processed and substitued by stash values as usual. Me thinks more like macro's in c, as a kind of pre-processing before compilation. Is this kind of '2-pass processing' stuff at all possible with tt? Or should I try and resolved this outside tt, in a library the caller's code /plugin? Or is the answer in bold typeface in the documentation (that's usually the case ...:-) (Btw, I also tried the PRE_PROCESS runtime processing option, to no avail). Thanks for any help. ~henq _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/templates
