SYNOPSIS

use Template;
use Template::Provider::FromDATA;

# Create the provider
my $provider = Template::Provider::FromDATA->new( {
CLASSES => __PACKAGE__
} );

# Add the provider to the config
my $template = Template->new( {
# ...
LOAD_TEMPLATES => [ $provider ]
} );
# Render a template
$template->process( 'mytemplate', { bar => 'Bar' } );
# ...and now the templates

__DATA__

__mytemplate__
Foo [% bar %]

__myothertemplate__
Baz, [% qux %]?

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to store your templates inline with your code in the "__DATA__" section. It will search any number of classes specified.

CAVEAT

If you have two templates with the same name, this module will not understand the difference, it will simply return the first one found. If you wish, you can specify a fully qualified template name by prefixing the template with the module name (using "-" instead of "::" as a namespace separator), adding a "/" to separate the module name from the template name.

    $template->process( 'My-Templates/mytemplate', { bar => 'Bar' } );

INSTALLATION

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

METHODS

new( \%OPTIONS )

Create a new instance of the provider. You can specify a list of classes to be searched for templates via the "CLASSES" option. By omitting this option it will search "main".

    # defaults to 'main'
    $provider = Template::Provider::FromDATA->new;
    
    # look for templates in 'Foo'
    $provider = Template::Provider::FromDATA->new( {
        CLASSES => 'Foo'
    } );
    # look for templates in 'Foo::Bar' and 'Foo::Baz'
    $provider = Template::Provider::FromDATA->new( {
        CLASSES => [ 'Foo::Bar', 'Foo::Baz' ]
    } );

By default, template data is lazy-loaded as they it is requested. If you wish to load up all template data upon initializtion, you can use the "PRELOAD" option.

    $provider = Template::Provider::FromDATA->new( {
        PRELOAD => 1
    } );

_init( \%OPTIONS )

A subclassed method to handle the options passed to "new()".

fetch( $name )

This is a subclassed method that will load a template via "_fetch()" if a non-reference argument is passed.

_load( $name )

Loads the template via the "get_file()" sub and sets some cache information.

get_file( $class, $template )

This method searches through $class for a template named $template. Returns the contents on success, undef on failure.

This function was mostly borrowed from Catalyst::Helper's "get_file" function.

ACCESSORS

classes

An arrayref of the class names containing our templates.

cache

A hashref of file and template data.

AUTHOR

Brian Cassidy <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2012 by Brian Cassidy

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.