Re: Stupid question

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:34:23 -0700
Konnor Willison <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm completely new to perl and recently found out about template
> toolkit and want to utilize it for my header and footers on my web
> pages.
> 
> I host at bluehost and am currently stuck on installation and proper
> set up.
> 
> 1. My current installation path
> is /perl5/lib/perl5/Template-Toolkit-2.24/ is this right? Should it
> be installed in another directory?

The Template-Toolkit-2.24 directory is just the installation package.
You should read the file named "README" inside that directory, and
follow the instructions in the "INSTALL" file.


> 2. I'm starting on how to use template toolkit by studying the tpage
> program but everything I've found isn't very helpful, does anyone
> have an example of how I can test tpage? Do I have to create any
> files to use it? If so where do these files go? Was there a path that
> I was suppose to specify for my templates?

Generally, you'll need a template, which you could pass to tpage for
testing, and in production you would probably process it from a perl
script.

But to play around, you can just run tpage without any parameters, and
type in a template, then hit Ctrl-D when you're done.  Something like
this:

[%- FOREACH i IN [ 1 .. 10 ] %]
Line [% i %]
[%- END %]





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