NAME

Gantry::Template::TT - Template Toolkit plugin for Gantry.

SYNOPSIS

  use Gantry::Template::TT;

DESCRIPTION

Use this module when you want template toolkit to produce your output:

    use Gantry qw/ -Engine=YourChoice -TemplateEngine=TT /;

Then in your do_* method do something like this:

    sub do_something {
        my $self = shift;
        # ... gather data for output
        # set the name of the template TT should use:
        $self->stash->view->template( 'output.tt' );
        # set the data TT should use to fill in the template:
        $self->stash->view->data(
            {
                # vars to pass to TT's process method
            }
        );
    }

This is plugin module that contains the Template Toolkit method calls.

METHODS

$site->do_action

"do_action" is a required function for the template plugin. It purpose is to call or dispatch to the appropriate method. This function is passed three parameters:

my( $self, $action, @path_array ) = @_;

This method is responsible for calling the controller method and storing the output from the controller.

$site->do_error

This method gives you the flexibility of logging, re-estabilishing a database connection, rebuilding the template object, etc.

$site->do_process

This method is the final step in the template plugin. Here you need call the template object passing the controller data and return the output.

$site->template_engine

Always returns the name of this module, which is the name of the current template engine.

SEE ALSO

Gantry(3)

LIMITATIONS

AUTHOR

Tim Keefer <tkeefer@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-6, Tim Keefer.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.