Cross Dave Chamberlain Darren Wardley Andy - Perl Template Toolkit

This book should be useful to anyone building and maintaining websites or other complex content systems. No prior knowledge of Perl,the Template Toolkit, or HTML is required to apply the basictechniques taught in this book. Some of the more advanced topicsrequire some degree of familiarity with the Perl programminglanguage. Readers who understand the basic language constructs andidioms of Perl and who already know how to install and use Perlmodules will have no trouble integrating the Template Toolkit intotheir existing or new projects. Some chapters talk about morespecific application areas: HTML, web programming, XML, and SQL, forexample. Experience in these areas will make the benefits of theTemplate Toolkit more readily apparent, but isntrequired.

This book is divided into 12 chapters and 1 appendix.

, Getting Started with the Template Toolkit , provides an introduction to theconcepts of template processing in general and to the TemplateToolkit in particular. It also covers how to install the TemplateToolkit on your system and gives a brief tutorial on its use so thatyou can check that installation is successful. In case itisnt, the chapter also includes pointers to othersources of information on the Template Toolkit.

, Building a Complete Web Site Using the Template Toolkit , is a tutorial on building a web siteusing the Template Toolkit. It gives a brief overview of many of thefeatures of the Template Toolkit that are covered in more detaillater in the book.

, The Template Language , begins our detailed look at theTemplate Toolkit. In this chapter, we look at the syntax of theTemplate Toolkits presentation language.

, Template Directives , covers the syntax and use of the manytemplating directives that can be used from the Template Toolkit.

, Filters , takes a look at filters. These areextensions to the Template Toolkit that allow you to filter your datain various ways before presenting it to your users. This chapterincludes a guide to the various standard filters that are includedwith the Template Toolkit distribution.

, Plugins , looks at the Template Toolkit plugins.Plugins are another way to extend the Template Toolkit by giving yourtemplates access to powerful external modules. This chapter includesa guide to the various standard plugins that are included with theTemplate Toolkit distribution.

, Anatomy of the Template Toolkit , looks under the covers of the TemplateToolkit and examines in some detail how it all works from the inside.

, Extending the Template Toolkit , covers ways to extend the TemplateToolkit by writing your own filters and plugins.

, Accessing Databases , looks in detail at writing templatesthat access data held in various different types of databases.

, XML , looks at using the Template Toolkit togenerate XML. It also covers reading XML documents and using theircontents from within your templates.

, Advanced Static Web Page Techniques , starts to put together everythingweve covered in the previous chapters and shows howto build a static web site using the Template Toolkit.

, Dynamic Web Content and Web Applications , extends the example of the previouschapter to add dynamic content to your web site.

, describes theconfiguration options for the Template Toolkit andApache::Template.