Template::Plugin::Config::General 0.01

Template::Plugin::Config::General is a template toolkit plugin which implements wrapper around Config::General module.

SYNOPSIS

# Config file format
; app.cfg - common configuration for scripts and both
; static and dynamic template pages.
base_url = /~liol
images_url = $base_url/images
< news >
title = Top News
url = $base_url/news
images_url = $url/images
< /news >
< admin >
title = Admin area
url = $base_url/admin
images_url = $url/images
< /admin >
include specific.cfg

# Reading configuration from code
use Config::General;
$plConfig = new Config::General(
-ConfigFile => app.cfg,
-ConfigPath => [ /web/etc ]
-InterPolateVars => 1,
-UseApacheInclude => 1,
);
my %cfg = $plConfig->getall;

# Reading configuration from template
[%-
USE plConfig = Config::General(
ConfigFile = app.cfg,
ConfigPath = [ /web/etc ]
InterPolateVars = 1,
UseApacheInclude = 1,
);
cfg = plConfig.getall;
-%]
[% cfg.news.title %]
[% cfg.admin.images_url %]

This module implements interface wrapper around Config::General. The task of easy access to configuration items from both code and templates may appear in applications which uses configuration files which are saved apart from code and templates. This module would help to avoid data doubling. To access configuration from code we can use Config::General module which parses apache-like config files. This plugin makes the same thing for templates. So we can use the same file in both code, "dynamic" templates and "static" templates. There is no difference what application uses template - ttree or other script. Plugin would provide proper configuration.