Hi guys,
 I think that it will be great to have ADD_LOCAL_PATH  in Template::Toolkit. I 
do not want to think about calculating the current path using INCLUDE_PATH. 
I`d like the Magic to work for me! 

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 18:20:06 Paul Seamons wrote:
> >From time to time I see people requesting allowing finding templates
> > relative
>
> to the current template.  I just responded to an email this morning with
> how to do so in Template::Alloy.  I would propose having it as an option in
> Template::Toolkit.
>
> If ADD_LOCAL_PATH is set, then whenever a file is being processed, the
> INCLUDE_PATHS variable is locally modified to include the current path.
> There is no speed hit for cases when ADD_LOCAL_PATH is not set.  See the
> Template::Alloy pod page for the ADD_LOCAL_PATH configuration option for
> more information.
>
> This actually can provide a certain degree of magic, if for example, a
> standard header is used that includes a chunk "logo.html" - each directory
> could use the same standard header - but have its own logo.html - and it
> just works.
>
> Paul Seamons
>
> The following is an example of this in action that I sent in an email this
> morning.
>
> Template::Toolkit doesn't offer this yet (but hopefully will) - but TA
> does:
>
> use Template::Alloy;
> use POSIX qw(tmpnam);
> use File::Path qw(rmtree mkpath);
>
> my $dir = tmpnam;
> mkpath($dir);
> mkpath("$dir/dir2");
> END { rmtree $dir };
>
> open(my $fh, ">", "$dir/foo.tt");
> print $fh "I am foo.tt";
> open $fh, ">", "$dir/dir2/bar.tt";
> print $fh 'I am bar.tt
> ------------
> [% PROCESS "../foo.tt" %]
> ';
> close $fh;
>
> my $ta = Template::Alloy->new(
>    INCLUDE_PATH => $dir,
>    RELATIVE => 1,
>    ADD_LOCAL_PATH => 1);
> $ta->process("dir2/bar.tt") || die $ta->error;
>
> The ADD_LOCAL_PATH configuration item is what does it.
>
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Десислав Каменов
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