Template Toolkit Information

<body bgcolor="white" text="black"> <p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top"> <tr valign="top"> <td align="left" rowspan="2" width="110">  </td> <td align="right" colspan="2">      </td> </tr> <tr valign="middle"> <td align="left">  </td> <td align="right"> <small>[ <a href="#Overview">Overview</a> ]</small> <small>[ <a href="#lists">Mailing Lists</a> ]</small> <small>[ <a href="#projects">Projects</a> ]</small> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="95%"> <tr valign=top> <td width="1%" align="right">  </td> <td width="95%"> <h2>Overview</h2> </td> <td width="4%" align="right"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <p> The <b>Template Toolkit</b> is a fast, powerful and easily extensible template processing system written in <b>Perl</b> with certain key elements coded in <b>C</b> for maximum speed. It is ideally suited (but not limited) to the creation of static and dynamic web content, and incorporates various modules and tools to simplify this process. The Toolkit is highly portable, with minimal dependencies or restrictions on how and where it can be used. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as <b>Open Source</b>. </p> <a name="Features"><h3>Features</h3></a> <ul> <li>Fast, powerful and extensible template processing system.</li> <li>Powerful presentation language supports all standard templating directives, e.g. variable substitution, includes, conditionals, loops.</li> <li>Many additional features such as output filtering, exception handling, macro definition, support for plugin objects, definition of template metadata, embedded Perl code (only enabled by EVAL_PERL option), definition of template blocks, a 'switch' statement, and more.</li> <li>Full support for complex Perl data types such as hashes, lists, objects and sub-routine references.</li> <li>Clear separation of concerns between user interface (templates), application code (Perl objects/sub-routines) and data (Perl data).</li> <li>Programmer-centric back end, allowing application logic and data structures to be built in Perl.</li> <li>Designer-centric front end, hiding underlying complexity behind simple variable access.</li> <li>Templates are compiled to Perl code for maximum runtime efficiency and performance. Compiled templates are cached and can be written to disk in "compiled form" (e.g. Perl code) to achieve cache persistance.</li> <li>Well suited to online dynamic web content generation (e.g. Apache/mod_perl).</li> <li>Also has excellent support for offline batch processing for generating static pages (e.g. HTML, POD, LaTeX, PostScript, plain text) from source templates. </li> <li>Comprehensive documentation including tutorial and reference manuals.</li> <li>Fully Open Source and Free</li> </ul> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade="1"></td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td width="1%" align="right">  </td> <td width="95%"> <h2>Mailing Lists</h2> </td> <td width="4%" align="right"> <small>[ <a name="lists"><a href="#top">Top</a></a> ]</small> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <p> The <b>templates</b> mailing list exists for reporting information, asking questions, discussing development or any other topic relevant to the Template Toolkit. To subscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:templates-request@template-toolkit.org">templates-request@template-toolkit.org</a> with the message 'subscribe' in the body or see: <ul> <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates">http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates</a> </ul> </p> <p> The <b>templates-announce</b> mailing list is a low-volume list used for announcing new version of the Template Toolkit or other related information. To subscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:templates-announce-request@template-toolkit.org">templates-announce-request@template-toolkit.org</a> with the message 'subscribe' in the body or see: <ul> <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates-announce">http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates-announce</a> </ul> </p> <p> The <b>template-axkit</b> mailing list is for discussion and development progress on adding the Template Toolkit as a presentation layer to Matt Sergeant's AxKit (Apache XML Kit). Work is in progress, but not moving too fast. Getting TT to work with AxKit is fairly easy, but there are a number of other minor issues that need to be resolved. To subscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:template-axkit-request@template-toolkit.org">template-axkit-request@template-toolkit.org</a> with the message 'subscribe' in the body or see: <ul> <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/template-axkit">http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/template-axkit</a> </ul> </p> <p> The <b>Camelot</b> mailing list exists for the discussion of an experimental new project, Camelot, a high-level application server framework engine. To subscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:camelot-request@template-toolkit.org">camelot-request@template-toolkit.org</a> with the message 'subscribe' in the body or see: <ul> <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/camelot">http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/camelot</a> </ul> </p> <p> The <b>Template-docset</b> mailing list exists for discussing the creation of a generic and extensible system for representing documentation sets that can then be rendered into numerous different formats using the Template Toolkit and other tools. To subscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:template-docset-request@template-toolkit.org">template-docset-request@template-toolkit.org</a> with the message 'subscribe' in the body or see: <ul> <a href="http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/template-docset">http://www.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/template-docset</a> </ul> </p> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade="1"></td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td width="1%" align="right">  </td> <td width="95%"> <h2>Related Projects</h2> </td> <td width="4%" align="right"> <small>[ <a name="projects"><a href="#top">Top</a></a> ]</small> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <p> These are just a handful of related projects that we happen to have information on at this time. If you know of any other relevant projects that you would like to see listed here then please <a href="mailto:abw@tt2.org">send us</a> the details. </p> <a name="Apache_Template"><h3>Apache::Template</h3></a> <p> This is an Apache/mod_perl interface to the Template Toolkit. Available from CPAN in the directory: </p> <ul> <a href="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/">http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/</a> </ul> <a name="OpenInteract"><h3>OpenInteract</h3></a> <p> OpenInteract is a robust web application framework built to run under Apache and mod_perl using the Template Toolkit as a foundation. </p> <ul> <a href="http://www.openinteract.org/">http://www.openinteract.org/</a> </ul> <a name="Slashcode"><h3>Slashcode</h3></a> <p> Slashcode is the code which runs <a href="http://slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>. Version 2 uses the Template Toolkit for generating the user interface from database driven templates. </p> <ul> <a href="http://slashcode.org/">http://slashcode.org/</a> </ul> </p> <a name="OpenFrame"><h3>OpenFrame</h3></a> <p> OpenFrame is an open source application framework for distributed media applications. It ships with a generator for the Template Toolkit. </p> <ul> <a href="http://openframe.fotango.com/">http://openframe.fotango.com/</a> </ul> <a name="PCMT"><h3>PCMT</h3></a> <p> PCMT is the Personal Content Management Toolkit. It uses the Template Toolkit as the presentation engine. </p> <ul> <a href="http://pcmt.sf.net/">http://pcmt.sf.net/</a> </ul> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade="1"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center">  <br clear="all" />  </p> </div></body>