Perrin Harkins wrote:
Evan Carroll wrote:
Could someone please juxtapose PROCESS w/ ARGS, vs, MACRO? I'm confused
as to which one to use.
It's a matter of scope. If want to split out some repeated code that no
other template will use, make it a MACRO in the current template. If
you have something that other templates might conceivably use too, make
it a separate template and call it with PROCESS.
In practice, I have almost no use for MACRO.
- Perrin
I agree with this. I don't use MACRO very much. For functions I find useful, I
usually pass them into TT via the vars parameter. There may be the occasional
Template that needs special code, though.
PROCESS/INCLUDE gives you more control over the scoping of variables than if
you are using a MACRO with a BLOCK. I think for MACROs (at least with BLOCKs),
all of the data is cloned before the BLOCK is processed. That means it is doing
an INCLUDE rather than a PROCESS. (So changes to scalars will not show up.)
-- Josh
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