On 28 Feb 2008, at 16:18, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
> I'm a newbie to tt2, and yes I've gone through the docs, at least in
> part.
>
> I'm using tt2 to redo my website. I'm doing a set of static pages.
> The
> whole site will be order 100 pages.
>
> First kick at the cat was a set of templates that worked
>
> [% INCLUDE header.inc %]
> [% INCLUDE {section}nav.inc %] #wehre section was the result of the
> top nav.
>
> content division
>
> [% INCLUDE footer.inc %]
>
> *********************************************
> It occurs to me that if my inc file knew the name of the calling file,
> I could take actions on that basis.
>
> The notion I have at present:
>
> Arbitrary tty file.:
>
>
> [% INCLUDE header.inc
> name.section= "Foo:
> %]
> [% INCLUDE ${name.section}_nav.inc
> name.subsection = "Bar"
> %]
>
> ...
>
> So header.inc can then format the top level nav bar, showing
> the currently selected link as being different.
>
> I.e. My top level has 5 section pages, Home, Trees, Advice, Forests,
> Links
> So the home page, which has 8 subpages would start
> with name.section = "Home" and name.subsection = "Welcome"
>
>
> Then the include file would recieve "Home" as a parameter.
> so when it's formating the navbar it can check for a match
> between the nav item and Home, and if it is a match, format it
> differently.
>
> However this is still two items to customize for each file. Given
> how often I've had to go back and correct the title and desc meta data
> because I missed it in my first attempt, I'm hoping there is an
> automatic
> way to streamline this.
>
> Is there a parameter or environment variable in tt2 that
> corresponds to $0 in a perl script? That is, the name
> of the template currently being processed.
>
> Similarly is there one that is the name of the calling template.
>
> Thus. name.self = name.0 = name of current template.
> name.parent = name.1= name of calling template.
> name.grand = name.2 = name of calling template's callng
> tempalte.
> name.top = name.last = top level template.
>
> This is something that has enough obvious uses to me I'm sure
> that it exists in tt2 somewhere. I just am missing the
> section on where to look for it. Pointers deeply appreciated.
http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Variables.html#section_Special_Variables
Specifically.
template.name = the name of the original file you are processing.
component.name = the name of hte file you are processing *right now*
(I have to admit I only skimmed your email so i might have got the
wrong gist)
-ash
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