package HTML::Template::Compiled; # $Id: Compiled.pm 1161 2012-05-05 14:00:22Z tinita $ # doesn't work with make tardist #our $VERSION = ($version_pod =~ m/^\$VERSION = "(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)"/m) ? $1 : "0.01"; our $VERSION = "1.000_002"; use Data::Dumper; use Scalar::Util; BEGIN { use constant D => $ENV{HTC_DEBUG} || 0; } use strict; use warnings; use Digest::MD5 qw/ md5_hex /; use Carp; use Fcntl qw(:seek :flock); use File::Spec; use File::Basename qw(dirname basename); use HTML::Template::Compiled::Utils qw(:walkpath :log :escape &md5); use HTML::Template::Compiled::Expression qw(:expressions); use HTML::Template::Compiled::Compiler; # TODO eval { require URI::Escape; }; #eval { # require Encode; #}; #my $Encode = $@ ? 0 : 1; use base 'Exporter'; our @EXPORT_OK = qw(&HTC); use HTML::Template::Compiled::Parser qw( $CASE_SENSITIVE_DEFAULT $NEW_CHECK $DEBUG_DEFAULT $SEARCHPATH %FILESTACK %COMPILE_STACK %PATHS $DEFAULT_ESCAPE $DEFAULT_QUERY $UNTAINT $DEFAULT_TAGSTYLE $MAX_RECURSE ); use vars qw($__ix__); use constant MTIME => 0; use constant CHECKED => 1; use constant LMTIME => 2; use constant LCHECKED => 3; use constant DEBUG_COMPILED => 0b001; use constant DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_MISS => 0b0001; use constant DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_HIT => 0b0010; use constant DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_MISS => 0b0100; use constant DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_HIT => 0b1000; our $DEBUG = 0; our $LAST_EXCEPTION; # options / object attributes use constant PARAM => 0; BEGIN { my @map = ( undef, qw( path md5_path filename file scalar filehandle file_cache cache_dir cache search_path loop_context case_sensitive global_vars default_path debug debug_file objects perl out_fh default_escape filter formatter globalstack use_query parse_tree parser compiler includes plugins open_mode chomp expire_time strict args ) #use_expressions ); for my $i ( 1 .. $#map ) { my $method = "_$map[$i]"; my $get = sub { return $_[0]->[$i] }; my $set; $set = sub { $_[0]->[$i] = $_[1] }; no strict 'refs'; *{"get$method"} = $get; *{"set$method"} = $set; } } # tired of typing? sub HTC { __PACKAGE__->new(@_) } sub new { my ( $class, %args ) = @_; D && $class->log("new()"); # handle the "type", "source" parameter format (does anyone use it?) if ( exists $args{type} ) { exists $args{source} or $class->_error_no_source(); $args{type} =~ m/^(?:filename|scalarref|arrayref|filehandle)$/ or $class->_error_wrong_source(); $args{ $args{type} } = $args{source}; delete $args{type}; delete $args{source}; } if (exists $args{filename}) { return $class->new_file($args{filename}, %args); } elsif (exists $args{scalarref}) { return $class->new_scalar_ref($args{scalarref}, %args); } elsif (exists $args{filehandle}) { return $class->new_filehandle($args{filehandle}, %args); } elsif (exists $args{arrayref}) { return $class->new_array_ref($args{arrayref}, %args); } croak("$class->new called with not enough arguments"); } sub _error_no_query { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; carp "You are using query() but have not specified that you want to use it" . " (specify with use_query => 1)"; } sub _error_not_compiled { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; carp "Template was not compiled yet"; } sub _error_wrong_source { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; croak("$class->new() : type parameter must be set to 'filename', " . "'arrayref', 'scalarref' or 'filehandle'!"); } sub _error_no_source { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; croak("$class->new() called with 'type' parameter set," . " but no 'source'!"); } sub _error_template_sources { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; croak( "$class->new called with multiple (or no) template sources specified!" . "A valid call to new() has exactly ne filename => 'file' OR exactly one" . " scalarref => \\\$scalar OR exactly one arrayref => \\\@array OR" . " exactly one filehandle => \*FH" ); } sub _error_empty_filename { my ($self) = @_; my $class = ref $self || $self; croak("$class->new called with empty filename parameter!"); } sub new_from_perl { my ($class, %args) = @_; my $self = bless [], $class; $self->init_args(\%args); D && $self->log("new(perl) filename: $args{filename}"); $self->init_cache(\%args); $self->init(%args); $self->set_perl( $args{perl} ); $self->set_filename( $args{filename} ); my $md5path = md5_hex(@{ $args{path} || [] }); $self->set_path( $args{path} ); $self->set_md5_path( $md5path ); $self->set_scalar( $args{scalarref} ); unless ( $self->get_scalar ) { my $file = $self->createFilename( $self->get_path, \$self->get_filename ); $self->set_file($file); } return $self; } sub new_file { my ($class, $filename, %args) = @_; my $self = bless [], $class; $self->init_args(\%args); $args{path} = $self->build_path($args{path}); $self->_error_empty_filename() if (!defined $filename or !length $filename); $args{filename} = $filename; if (exists $args{scalarref} || exists $args{arrayref} || exists $args{filehandle}) { $self->_error_template_sources; } $self->set_filename( $filename ); $self->init_cache(\%args); my $md5path = md5_hex(@{ $args{path} || [] }); $self->set_path( $args{path} ); $self->set_md5_path( $md5path ); if (my $t = $self->from_cache(\%args)) { $t->init_includes(); return $t; } $self->init(%args); $self->from_scratch; $self->init_includes; return $self; } sub new_filehandle { my ($class, $filehandle, %args) = @_; my $self = bless [], $class; $self->init_args(\%args); if (exists $args{scalarref} || exists $args{arrayref} || exists $args{filename}) { $self->_error_template_sources; } $args{filehandle} = $filehandle; $args{path} = $self->build_path($args{path}); $self->set_filehandle( $args{filehandle} ); $args{cache} = 0; $self->init_cache(\%args); my $md5path = md5_hex(@{ $args{path} || [] }); $self->set_path( $args{path} ); $self->set_md5_path( $md5path ); if (my $t = $self->from_cache(\%args)) { return $t; } $self->init(%args); $self->from_scratch; $self->init_includes; return $self; } sub new_array_ref { my ($class, $arrayref, %args) = @_; if (exists $args{scalarref} || exists $args{filehandle} || exists $args{filename}) { $class->_error_template_sources; } my $scalarref = \( join '', @$arrayref ); delete $args{arrayref}; return $class->new_scalar_ref($scalarref, %args); } sub new_scalar_ref { my ($class, $scalarref, %args) = @_; my $self = bless [], $class; $self->init_args(\%args); if (exists $args{arrayref} || exists $args{filehandle} || exists $args{filename}) { $self->_error_template_sources; } $args{scalarref} = $scalarref; $args{path} = $self->build_path($args{path}); $self->init_cache(\%args); $self->set_scalar( $args{scalarref} ); my $text = $self->get_scalar; my $md5 = md5($$text); # if ($args{cache} and !$md5) { # croak "For caching scalarrefs you need Digest::MD5"; # } $self->set_filename($md5); D && $self->log("md5: $md5"); my $md5path = md5_hex(@{ $args{path} || [] }); $self->set_path( $args{path} ); $self->set_md5_path( $md5path ); if (my $t = $self->from_cache(\%args)) { return $t; } $self->init(%args); $self->from_scratch; $self->init_includes; return $self; } sub init_includes { my ($self) = @_; my $includes = $self->get_includes; my $cache = $self->get_cache_dir||''; for my $fullpath (keys %$includes) { my ($path, $filename, $htc) = @{ $includes->{$fullpath} }; D && $self->log("checking $fullpath ($filename) $htc?"); # TODO check $cache $cache .= '-' . $self->get_md5_path; #warn __PACKAGE__.':'.__LINE__.": init_includes() $filename\n"; if (not $htc or HTML::Template::Compiled::needs_new_check($cache||'',$filename, $self->get_expire_time) ) { $htc = $self->new_from_object($path,$filename,$fullpath,$cache); } $includes->{$fullpath}->[2] = $htc; $includes->{$fullpath}->[2]->set_plugins($self->get_plugins); } } sub build_path { my ($self, $path) = @_; unless (defined $path) { $path = []; } elsif (!ref $path) { $path = [$path]; } defined $ENV{'HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT'} and push @$path, $ENV{'HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT'}; return $path; } sub from_scratch { my ($self) = @_; D && $self->log("from_scratch filename=".$self->get_filename); my $fname = $self->get_filename; if ( defined $fname and !$self->get_scalar and !$self->get_filehandle ) { #D && $self->log("tried from_cache() filename=".$fname); my $file = $self->createFilename( $self->get_path, \$fname ); D && $self->log("set_file $file ($fname)"); $self->set_file($file); } elsif ( defined $fname ) { $self->set_file($fname); } D && $self->log( "compiling... " . $self->get_filename ); $self->compile(); return $self; } sub from_cache { my ($self, $args) = @_; my $t; D && $self->log( "from_cache() filename=" . $self->get_filename ); $args ||= {}; my $plug = $args->{plugin} || []; my $debug = $self->get_debug || $args->{debug}; # try to get memory cache if ( $self->get_cache ) { my $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; $dir = '' unless defined $dir; $dir .= '-' . $self->get_md5_path; my $fname = $self->get_filename; $t = $self->from_mem_cache($dir,$fname, $args); if ($t) { $t->set_args($args); if (@$plug) { $t->set_plugins($plug); $t->load_plugins($plug); } if ($debug->{cache} & DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_HIT) { warn "### HTML::Template::Compiled Cache Debug ### MEM CACHE HIT: $fname\n"; } return $t; } # warn __PACKAGE__.':'.__LINE__.": not in mem cache: $fname\n"; if ($debug->{cache} & DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_MISS) { warn "### HTML::Template::Compiled Cache Debug ### MEM CACHE MISS: @{[ $self->get_filename ]}\n"; } } D && $self->log( "from_cache() 2 filename=" . $self->get_filename ); # not in memory cache, try file cache if ( $self->get_cache_dir ) { my $file = $self->get_scalar || $self->get_filehandle ? $self->get_filename : $self->createFilename( $self->get_path, \$self->get_filename ); my $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; $t = $self->from_file_cache($dir, $file); if ($t) { $t->set_args($args); if (@$plug) { $t->set_plugins($plug); $t->load_plugins($plug); } if ($debug->{cache} & DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_HIT) { warn "### HTML::Template::Compiled Cache Debug ### FILE CACHE HIT: @{[ $self->get_filename ]}\n"; } return $t; } if ($debug->{cache} & DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_MISS) { warn "### HTML::Template::Compiled Cache Debug ### FILE CACHE MISS: @{[ $self->get_filename ]}\n"; } } D && $self->log( "from_cache() 3 filename=" . $self->get_filename ); return; } { my $cache; # { # $cachedir => { # $filename => $htc_object, my $times; sub needs_new_check { my ($dir, $fname, $expire_time) = @_; my $times = $times->{$dir}->{$fname} or return 1; my $now = time; return 0 if $now - $times->{checked} < $expire_time; return 1; } sub from_mem_cache { my ($self, $dir, $fname, $args) = @_; my $cached = $cache->{$dir}->{$fname}; my $times = $times->{$dir}->{$fname}; D && $self->log("\$cached=$cached \$times=$times \$fname=$fname\n"); if ( $cached && $self->uptodate($times, $args) ) { return $cached->clone; } D && $self->log("no or old memcache"); return; } sub _debug_cache { my ($self) = @_; my $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; my $objects = $cache->{$dir}; my $times = $times->{$dir}; warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\$times], ['times']); my @keys = keys %$objects; warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\@keys], ['keys']); } sub add_mem_cache { my ( $self, %times ) = @_; D && $self->stack(1); my $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; $dir = '' unless defined $dir; my @c = caller(); $dir .= '-' . $self->get_md5_path; my $fname = $self->get_filename; D && $self->log( "add_mem_cache $fname" ); my $clone = $self->clone; $clone->clear_params(); my @plugs = @{ $self->get_plugins || [] }; for my $i (0 .. $#plugs) { if (ref $plugs[$i]) { if ($plugs[$i]->can('serialize')) { $plugs[$i] = $plugs[$i]->serialize(); } } } $clone->set_plugins(\@plugs); $cache->{$dir}->{$fname} = $clone; $times->{$dir}->{$fname} = \%times; } sub clear_cache { my $dir = $_[0]->get_cache_dir; # clear the whole cache $cache = {}, $times = {}, return unless defined $dir; # only specific directory $cache->{$dir} = {}; $times->{$dir} = {}; } sub clear_filecache { my ( $self, $dir ) = @_; defined $dir or $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; return unless -d $dir; ref $self and $self->lock; opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Could not open '$dir': $!"; my @files = grep { m/(\.pl|\.storable)$/ } readdir $dh; for my $file (@files) { my $file = File::Spec->catfile( $dir, $file ); unlink $file or die "Could not delete '$file': $!"; } ref $self and $self->unlock; return 1; } sub uptodate { my ( $self, $cached_times, $args ) = @_; return 1 if $self->get_scalar; my $expire_time = $self->get_expire_time; $expire_time = $args->{expire_time} unless defined $expire_time; # unless ($cached_times) { # my $dir = $self->get_cache_dir; # $dir = '' unless defined $dir; # my $fname = $self->get_filename; # my $cached = $cache->{$dir}->{$fname}; # $cached_times = $times->{$dir}->{$fname}; # return unless $cached; # } my $now = time; if ( $now - $cached_times->{checked} < $expire_time ) { return 1; } else { my $file = $self->createFilename( $self->get_path, \$self->get_filename ); $self->set_file($file); #print STDERR "uptodate($file)\n"; my @times = $self->_checktimes($file); if ( $times[MTIME] <= $cached_times->{mtime} ) { D && $self->log("uptodate template old"); # set last check time to new value $cached_times->{checked} = $now; return 1; } } # template is not up to date, re-compile it return 0; } } sub compile { my ($self) = @_; my ( $source, $compiled ); my $compiler = $self->get_compiler; if ( my $file = $self->get_file and !$self->get_scalar ) { D && $self->log( "compile from file " . $file ); die "Could not open '$file': $!" unless -f $file; my @times = $self->_checktimes($file); my $text = $self->_readfile($file); my ( $source, $compiled ) = $compiler->compile( $self, $text, $file ); $self->set_perl($compiled); $self->get_cache and $self->add_mem_cache( checked => time, mtime => $times[MTIME], ); D && $self->log("compiled $file"); if ( $self->get_cache_dir ) { D && $self->log("add_file_cache($file)"); $self->add_file_cache( $source, checked => time, mtime => $times[MTIME], ); } } elsif ( my $text = $self->get_scalar ) { my $md5 = $self->get_filename; # yeah, weird D && $self->log("compiled $md5"); my ( $source, $compiled ) = $compiler->compile( $self, $$text, $md5 ); $self->set_perl($compiled); if ( $self->get_cache_dir ) { D && $self->log("add_file_cache($file)"); $self->add_file_cache( $source, checked => time, mtime => time, ); } } elsif ( my $fh = $self->get_filehandle ) { local $/; my $data = <$fh>; my ( $source, $compiled ) = $compiler->compile( $self, $data, '' ); $self->set_perl($compiled); } } sub add_file_cache { my ( $self, $source, %times ) = @_; $self->lock; my $cache = $self->get_cache_dir; my $plfile = $self->escape_filename( $self->get_file ); my $filename = $self->get_filename; my $lmtime = localtime $times{mtime}; my $lchecked = localtime $times{checked}; my $cachefile = "$cache/$plfile"; D && $self->log("add_file_cache() $cachefile"); { local $Storable::Deparse = 1; my $clone = $self->clone; $clone->prepare_for_cache; my $v = $self->VERSION || '0.01'; my $to_cache = { htc => $clone, version => $v, times => { mtime => $times{mtime}, checked => $times{checked}, }, }; Storable::store($to_cache, "$cachefile.storable"); } $self->unlock; } sub get_plugin { my ($self, $class) = @_; for my $plug (@{ $self->get_plugins || [] }) { return $plug if (ref $plug || $plug) eq $class; } return; } sub from_file_cache { my ($self, $dir, $file) = @_; D && $self->stack; D && $self->log("include file: $file"); my $escaped = $self->escape_filename($file); my $req = File::Spec->catfile( $dir, "$escaped.storable" ); return unless -f $req; return $self->include_file($req); } sub include_file { my ( $self, $req ) = @_; D && $self->log("do $req"); my $r; my $t; { #require Storable; local $Storable::Eval = 1; my $cache; eval { $cache = Storable::retrieve($req); }; #warn __PACKAGE__.':'.__LINE__.": error? $@\n"; return if $@; my $cached_version = $cache->{version}; $t = $cache->{htc}; if (($t->VERSION || '0.01') ne $cached_version || !$t->uptodate( $cache->{times} )) { # is not uptodate return; } my $plug = $t->get_plugins || []; $t->get_cache and $t->add_mem_cache( checked => $cache->{times}->{checked}, mtime => $cache->{times}->{mtime}, ); } return $t; } sub createFilename { my ( $self, $path, $filename_ref, $cwd ) = @_; my $filename = $$filename_ref; D && $self->log("createFilename($path,$filename)"); D && $self->stack(1); #warn __PACKAGE__.':'.__LINE__.": ---- createFilename($path, $$filename_ref, $cwd)\n"; if ($path) { local $" = "\0"; my $cached = $PATHS{"@$path"}->{$filename}; return $cached if defined $cached; } if ( !$path or (File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($filename) && -f $filename) ) { return $filename; } else { D && $self->log( "file: " . File::Spec->catfile( $path, $filename ) ); if ($path && @$path) { my @search = @$path; for ( @search ) { my $fp = File::Spec->catfile( $_, $filename ); if (-f $fp) { local $" = "\0"; $PATHS{"@$path"}->{$filename} = $fp; return $fp; } } # not found in $path, try current template dir if (defined $cwd) { my $fp = File::Spec->catfile( $cwd, $filename ); if (-f $fp) { for my $p (@search) { if ($fp =~ m{^\Q$p\E(.*)}) { my $rest = $1; my (undef, @p) = File::Spec->splitdir($rest); $rest = File::Spec->catfile(@p); $$filename_ref = $rest; $PATHS{"@$path"}->{$rest} = $fp; } } return $fp; } } } elsif (-f $filename) { $PATHS{''}->{$filename} = $filename; return $filename; } # TODO - bug with scalarref croak "'$filename' not found"; } } sub dump { my ( $self, $var ) = @_; require Data::Dumper; local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1; return Data::Dumper->Dump( [$var], ['DUMP'] ); } sub init_cache { my ($self, $args) = @_; my $cachedir = $args->{file_cache_dir}; if ($args->{file_cache}) { unless (require_storable()) { croak "Storable and B::Deparse needed for file cache"; } $self->set_cache_dir($cachedir) if $args->{file_cache}; if (defined $cachedir and not -d $cachedir) { croak "Cachedir '$cachedir' does not exist"; } } $self->set_cache( exists $args->{cache} ? $args->{cache} : 1 ); } sub init_args { my ($self, $args) = @_; if (exists $args->{cache_dir}) { # will soon be deprecated $args->{file_cache_dir} = delete $args->{cache_dir}; unless (exists $args->{file_cache}) { # warn in future versions $args->{file_cache} = 1; } } if ($args->{plugin} and (ref $args->{plugin}) ne 'ARRAY') { $args->{plugin} = [$args->{plugin}]; } my $debug_cache_args = delete $args->{cache_debug} || 0; my $debug_cache = 0; if ($debug_cache_args) { unless (ref $debug_cache_args) { # no array ref, just a true value $debug_cache |= DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_MISS | DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_HIT | DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_MISS | DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_HIT; } else { for my $opt (@$debug_cache_args) { if ($opt eq 'file_miss') { $debug_cache |= DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_MISS; } elsif ($opt eq 'file_hit') { $debug_cache |= DEBUG_CACHE_FILE_HIT; } elsif ($opt eq 'mem_miss') { $debug_cache |= DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_MISS; } elsif ($opt eq 'mem_hit') { $debug_cache |= DEBUG_CACHE_MEM_HIT; } } } } # check deprecated for (qw(method_call deref formatter_path default_path formatter)) { if (exists $args->{$_}) { croak "Option $_ is deprecated, see documentation"; } } if (exists $args->{dumper}) { croak "Option dumper is deprecated, use a plugin instead"; } my $debug_file = delete $args->{debug_file} || 0; my $debug_compiled = delete $args->{debug} ? 1 : 0; my $debug = 0; $debug |= DEBUG_COMPILED if $debug_compiled; $args->{debug} = { options => $debug, file => $debug_file, cache => $debug_cache, }; %$args = ( search_path_on_include => $SEARCHPATH, loop_context_vars => 0, case_sensitive => $CASE_SENSITIVE_DEFAULT, # debug_file => 0, objects => 'strict', out_fh => 0, global_vars => 0, default_escape => $DEFAULT_ESCAPE, default_path => PATH_DEREF, use_query => $DEFAULT_QUERY, #use_expressions => 0, use_perl => 0, open_mode => '', no_includes => 0, pre_chomp => 0, post_chomp => 0, expire_time => $NEW_CHECK, strict => 1, %$args, ); $self->set_args($args); # return %defaults; } sub init { my ( $self, %args ) = @_; $self->set_expire_time($args{expire_time}); $self->set_loop_context(1) if $args{loop_context_vars}; $self->set_case_sensitive( $args{case_sensitive} ); $self->set_default_escape( $args{default_escape} ); $self->set_default_path( $args{default_path} ); $self->set_use_query( $args{use_query} ); $self->set_chomp([$args{pre_chomp}, $args{post_chomp}]); $self->set_strict( $args{strict} ); #$self->set_use_expressions( $args{use_expressions} ); if ($args{use_expressions}) { require HTML::Template::Compiled::Expr; } if ($args{open_mode}) { $args{open_mode} =~ s/^[<>]//; # <:utf8 } $self->set_open_mode( $args{open_mode} ); $self->set_search_path( $args{search_path_on_include} ); $self->set_includes({}); if ( $args{filter} ) { require HTML::Template::Compiled::Filter; $self->set_filter( HTML::Template::Compiled::Filter->new( $args{filter} ) ); } $self->set_debug( $args{debug} ); $self->set_debug_file( $args{debug_file} ); $self->set_objects( $args{objects} ); $self->set_out_fh( $args{out_fh} ); $self->set_global_vars( $args{global_vars} ); if (my $plugins = $args{plugin}) { $self->set_plugins($plugins); } my $compiler = $self->compiler_class->new; $self->set_compiler($compiler); my $tagstyle = $args{tagstyle}; my $parser; if (ref $tagstyle eq 'ARRAY') { # user specified named styles or regexes $parser = $self->parser_class->new( tagstyle => $tagstyle, use_expressions => $args{use_expressions}, strict => $args{strict}, ); $parser->set_perl($args{use_perl}); } $args{parser} = ${$args{parser}} if ref $args{parser} eq 'REF'; if (UNIVERSAL::isa($args{parser}, 'HTML::Template::Compiled::Parser')) { $parser = $args{parser}; } unless ($parser) { $parser ||= $self->parser_class->default(); $parser->set_perl($args{use_perl}); $parser->set_expressions($args{use_expressions}); $parser->set_strict($args{strict}); } $parser->set_chomp([$args{pre_chomp}, $args{post_chomp}]); if ($args{use_perl}) { $parser->add_tagnames({ HTML::Template::Compiled::Token::OPENING_TAG() => { PERL => [sub { 1 }], } }); } if ($args{no_includes}) { $parser->remove_tags(qw/ INCLUDE INCLUDE_VAR INCLUDE_STRING /); } $self->set_parser($parser); if (my $plugins = $self->get_plugins) { $self->init_plugins($plugins); $self->set_plugins($plugins); } } { my %_plugins; sub load_plugins { my ($self, $plugins) = @_; for my $plug (@$plugins) { next if ref $plug; next if $_plugins{$plug}; if ($plug =~ m/^::/) { $plug = "HTML::Template::Compiled::Plugin$plug"; } next if $_plugins{$plug}; unless ($plug->can('register')) { eval "require $plug"; if ($@) { carp "Could not load plugin $plug\n"; } } $_plugins{$plug} = 1; } } } sub init_plugins { my ($self, $plugins) = @_; $self->load_plugins($plugins); my $parser = $self->get_parser; my $compiler = $self->get_compiler; for my $plug (@$plugins) { my $actions = $self->get_plugin_actions($plug); if (my $tagnames = $actions->{tagnames}) { $parser->add_tagnames($tagnames); } if (my $escape = $actions->{escape}) { $compiler->add_escapes((ref $plug) || $plug, $escape); } if (my $tags = $actions->{compile}) { $compiler->add_tags($tags); } } } { my $classes = {}; sub register { my ($class, $plugins) = @_; $plugins = [$plugins] unless ref $plugins eq 'ARRAY'; for my $plug (@$plugins) { my $actions = $plug->register; my $plug_class = (ref $plug) || $plug; $classes->{ $plug_class} = $actions; HTML::Template::Compiled::Compiler->setup_escapes($plug_class, $actions->{escape}||{}); } } sub get_plugin_actions { my ($self, $pclass) = @_; return $classes->{ref $pclass || $pclass}; } } sub _readfile { my ( $self, $file ) = @_; my $open_mode = $self->get_open_mode; my $fh; if ($] < 5.007001) { open $fh, $file or die "Cannot open '$file': $!"; } else { $open_mode = '' unless length $open_mode; open $fh, "<$open_mode", $file or die "Cannot open '$file': $!"; } local $/; my $text = <$fh>; return $text; } sub get_code { my ($self) = @_; my $perl = $self->get_perl; return $perl; } sub compile_early { 1 } sub method_call { '.' } sub deref { '.' } sub formatter_path { '/' } sub parser_class { 'HTML::Template::Compiled::Parser' } sub compiler_class { 'HTML::Template::Compiled::Compiler' } sub quote_file { defined(my $f = $_[1]) or return ''; $f =~ s/'/\\'/g; return qq/'$f'/; } # this method gets a varname like 'var' or 'object.method' # or 'hash.key' and makes valid perl code out of it that will # be eval()ed later # so assuming . is the character for dereferencing hashes the string # hash.key (found inside ) will be converted to # '$t->get_var($P, $$C, 1, [PATH_DEREF, 'key'])' # the get_var method walks the paths given through the data structure. # $P is the parameter hash of the template, $C is a reference to the current # parameter hash. the third argument to get_var is 'final'. # is a 'final' path, and is not. # so final means it's in 'print-context'. # -------- warning, ugly code # i'm trading maintainability for efficiency here sub try_global { my ( $self, $walk, $path ) = @_; my $stack = $self->get_globalstack || []; #warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\$stack], ['stack']); for my $item ( $walk, reverse @$stack ) { if (my $code = UNIVERSAL::can($item, $path)) { my $r = $code->($item); return $r; } else { next unless exists $item->{$path}; return $item->{$path}; } } return; } { sub _walk_formatter { my ($self, $walk, $key, $global) = @_; my $ref = ref $walk; my $fm = $HTML::Template::Compiled::Formatter::formatter; my $sub = exists $fm->{$ref} ? $fm->{$ref}->{$key} : undef; my $stack = []; my $new_walk; if ($global) { $stack = $self->get_globalstack || []; } for my $item ($walk, reverse @$stack) { #print STDERR "::::::: formatter $walk -> $key (sub=$sub)\n"; if (defined $sub) { $new_walk = $sub->($walk); last; } elsif (exists $item->{$key}) { #print STDERR "===== \$item->{$key} exists! '$item->{$key}'\n"; $new_walk = $item->{$key}; last; } # try next item in stack } #print STDERR "---- formatter $walk\n"; return $new_walk; } # ----------- still ugly code # not needed anymore # if (my $formatter = $self->get_formatter() and $final and my $ref = ref $walk) { # if (my $sub = $formatter->{$ref}->{''}) { # my $return = $sub->($walk,$self,$P); # return $return unless ref $return; # } # } # return $walk; } # end ugly code, phooey # returns if the var is valid # only allow '.', '/', '+', '-' and '_' # fix 2007-07-23: HTML::Template allows every character # although the documentation says it doesn't. sub validate_var { return 1; #return $_[1] !~ tr{a-zA-Z0-9._[]/#-}{}c; } sub escape_filename { my ( $t, $f ) = @_; $f =~ s#([/:\\])#'%'.uc sprintf"%02x",ord $1#ge; return $f; } sub _checktimes { my $self = shift; D && $self->stack; my $filename = shift; my $mtime = ( stat $filename )[9]; #print STDERR "stat $filename = $mtime\n"; my $checked = time; my $lmtime = localtime $mtime; my $lchecked = localtime $checked; return ( $mtime, $checked, $lmtime, $lchecked ); } sub clone { my ($self) = @_; return bless [@$self], ref $self; } sub new_scalar_from_object { my ($self, $scalar) = @_; my $new = $self->clone; $new->set_includes({}); $new->set_perl(undef); $new->set_filehandle(); $new->set_cache(0); $new->set_cache_dir(undef); $new->set_scalar(\$scalar); my $md5 = md5($scalar); $new->set_filename($md5); $new = $new->from_scratch; return $new; } # create from existing object (TMPL_INCLUDE) sub new_from_object { my ( $self, $path, $filename, $fullpath, $cache ) = @_; unless (defined $filename) { my ($file) = (caller(1))[3]; croak "Filename is undef (in template $file)"; } my $new = $self->clone; D && $self->log("new_from_object($path,$filename,$fullpath,$cache)"); $new->set_filename($filename); #if ($fullpath) { # $self->set_file($fullpath); #} $new->set_includes({}); $new->set_scalar(); $new->set_filehandle(); my $md5path = md5_hex(@{ $path || [] }); $new->set_path($path); $new->set_md5_path( $md5path ); $new->set_perl(undef); if (my $cached = $new->from_cache($self->get_args)) { $cached->set_plugins($self->get_plugins); $cached->init_includes; return $cached } unless ($new->get_compiler) { my %args = %{ $self->get_args || {} }; $new->init(%args); } $new = $new->from_scratch; $new->init_includes; return $new; } sub prepare_for_cache { my ($self) = @_; $self->clear_params; my @plugs = @{ $self->get_plugins || [] }; for my $i (0 .. $#plugs) { if (ref $plugs[$i]) { if ($plugs[$i]->can('serialize')) { $plugs[$i] = $plugs[$i]->serialize(); } } } $self->set_plugins(\@plugs); my $includes = $self->get_includes; for my $fullpath (keys %$includes) { my ($path, $filename, $htc) = @{ $includes->{$fullpath} }; $includes->{$fullpath} = [$path, $filename]; } $self->set_parser(undef); $self->set_compiler(undef); $self->set_args(undef); } sub preload { my ( $class, $dir ) = @_; opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Could not open '$dir': $!"; my @files = grep { m/\.pl|\.storable$/ } readdir $dh; closedir $dh; my $loaded = 0; for my $file (@files) { my $success = $class->include_file( File::Spec->catfile( $dir, $file ) ); $loaded++ if $success; } return scalar $loaded; } sub precompile { my ($class, %args) = @_; my $files = delete $args{filenames}; return unless ref $files eq 'ARRAY'; my @precompiled; for my $file (@$files) { my $htc = $class->new(%args, (ref $file eq 'SCALAR' ? 'scalarref' : ref $file eq 'ARRAY' ? 'arrayref' : ref $file eq 'GLOB' ? 'filehandle' : 'filename') => $file, ); push @precompiled, $htc, } return \@precompiled; } sub clear_params { $_[0]->[PARAM] = (); } sub get_param { return $_[0]->[PARAM]; } sub param { my $self = shift; if (!@_) { return $self->query(); return UNIVERSAL::can($self->[PARAM],'can') ? $self->[PARAM] : $self->[PARAM] ? keys %{$self->[PARAM]} : (); } my %p; if (@_ == 1) { if ( ref $_[0] ) { # feed a hashref or object if (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') { # hash, no object %p = %{ $_[0] }; } else { $self->[PARAM] = $_[0]; return; } } else { # query a parameter return $self->[PARAM]->{ $_[0] }; } } else { %p = @_; } if ( !$self->get_case_sensitive ) { my $lc = $self->lchash( {%p} ); %p = %$lc; } $self->[PARAM]->{$_} = $p{$_} for keys %p; } sub query { my ($self, $what, $tags) = @_; # param() no arguments should behave like query # query() is not activated by default, and # my %param = (); $htc->param(%param); should # *not* call query(). so we check if the user wants # a return value; that indicates that they wanted to # use query-like behaviour. return unless defined wantarray(); #print STDERR "query(@_)\n"; my $info = $self->get_parse_tree or do { $self->_error_no_query(); return; }; unless (ref $info) { # not compiled yet! $self->_error_not_compiled(); return; } my $pointer = {children => $info}; $tags = [] unless defined $tags; $tags = [$tags] unless ref $tags eq 'ARRAY'; my $includes = $self->get_includes; my %include_info = map { $includes->{$_}->[1] => $includes->{$_}->[2]->get_parse_tree; } keys %{ $includes }; for my $tag (@$tags) { my $value; my %includes = map { my $item = $pointer->{children}->{$_}; ($item->{type} eq 'INCLUDE' and $include_info{$_}) ? (%{$include_info{$_}}) : () } keys %{ $pointer->{children} }; if (defined ($value = $pointer->{children}->{lc $tag})) { $pointer = $value; } elsif (defined ($value = $includes{lc $tag})) { $pointer = $value; } else { return; } } unless ($what) { my @return = map { my $item = $pointer->{children}->{$_}; ($item->{type} eq 'INCLUDE' and $include_info{$_}) ? (keys %{$include_info{$_}}) : $_; } keys %{ $pointer->{children} }; return @return; } elsif ($what eq 'name') { my $type = $pointer->{type}; return $type; } elsif ($what eq 'loop') { if ($pointer->{type} eq 'LOOP') { my @return = map { my $item = $pointer->{children}->{$_}; ($item->{type} eq 'INCLUDE' and $include_info{$_}) ? (keys %{$include_info{$_}}) : $_; } keys %{ $pointer->{children} }; return @return; } else { croak "error: (@$tags) is not a LOOP" } } return; } # =head2 lchash # # my $capped_href = $self->lchash(\%href); # # Input: # - hashref or arrayref of hashrefs # # Output: Returns a reference to a cloned data structure where all the keys are # capped. # # =cut sub lchash { my ( $self, $data ) = @_; my $lc; if ( ref $data eq 'HASH' ) { for my $key ( keys %$data ) { my $uc_key = lc $key; my $val = $self->lchash( $data->{$key} ); $lc->{$uc_key} = $val; } } elsif ( ref $data eq 'ARRAY' ) { for my $item (@$data) { my $new = $self->lchash($item); push @$lc, $new; } } else { $lc = $data; } return $lc; } sub output { my ( $self, $fh ) = @_; my $p = $self->[PARAM] || {}; # if we only have an object as parameter $p = ref $p eq 'HASH' ? \% { $p } : $p; my $f = $self->get_file; $fh = \*STDOUT unless $fh; if ($DEBUG) { my $output; eval { $output = $self->get_perl()->( $self, $p, \$p, $fh ); }; if ($@) { $LAST_EXCEPTION = $@; my $filename = $self->get_file; die "Error while executing '$filename': $@"; } return $output; } else { $self->get_perl()->( $self, $p, \$p, $fh ); } } sub import { my ( $class, %args ) = @_; if ( $args{compatible} ) { carp "Usage of use option 'compatible' is deprecated"; $class->CaseSensitive(0); $class->SearchPathOnInclude(0); $class->UseQuery(1); } elsif ( $args{speed} ) { carp "Usage of use option 'speed' is deprecated"; # default at the moment $class->CaseSensitive(1); $class->SearchPathOnInclude(1); $class->UseQuery(0); } if (exists $args{short}) { carp "Usage of use option 'short' is deprecated"; __PACKAGE__->export_to_level(1, scalar caller(), 'HTC'); } } sub var2expression { my ($self, $var) = @_; $var = $self->get_compiler->parse_var($self, var => $var, method_call => $self->method_call, deref => $self->deref, formatter_path => $self->formatter_path, ); return $var; } sub ExpireTime { my ($class, $seconds) = @_; $NEW_CHECK = $seconds; } sub EnableSub { carp "Warning: Subref variables are not supported any more, use HTML::Template::Compiled::Classic instead"; } sub CaseSensitive { my ($class, $bool) = @_; $CASE_SENSITIVE_DEFAULT = $bool ? 1 : 0; } sub SearchPathOnInclude { my ($class, $bool) = @_; $SEARCHPATH = $bool ? 1 : 0; } sub UseQuery { my ($class, $bool) = @_; $DEFAULT_QUERY = $bool ? 1 : 0; } sub pushGlobalstack { my $stack = $_[0]->get_globalstack; push @$stack, $_[1]; $_[0]->set_globalstack($stack); } sub popGlobalstack { my $stack = $_[0]->get_globalstack; pop @$stack; $_[0]->set_globalstack($stack); } { my $lock_fh; sub lock { my $file = File::Spec->catfile( $_[0]->get_cache_dir, "lock" ); unless ( -f $file ) { # touch open $lock_fh, '>', $file or croak "Could not open lockfile '$file' for writing: $!"; close $lock_fh; } open $lock_fh, '+<', $file or croak "Could not open lockfile '$file' for read/write: $!"; flock $lock_fh, LOCK_EX; } sub unlock { close $lock_fh; } } { my $loaded = 0; my $error = 0; sub require_storable { return 1 if $loaded; return 0 if $error; eval { require Storable; }; if ($@) { $error = 1; return 0; } eval "use B::Deparse 0.61"; if ($@) { $error = 1; return 0; } return 1; } } sub debug_code { my ($self, $html) = @_; my $perl = $self->get_perl; require B::Deparse; my $deparse = B::Deparse->new("-p", "-sC"); my $body = $deparse->coderef2text($perl); my $filename = $self->get_file; #warn __PACKAGE__.':'.__LINE__.$".Data::Dumper->Dump([\$body], ['body']); my $message = ''; if ($LAST_EXCEPTION and $LAST_EXCEPTION =~ m/at \(eval \d*\) line (\d+)\./) { my $rline = $1; my $line = $rline; $line--; my @lines = split m#$/#, $body; if ($line > $#lines) { $line = $#lines; } my $pre = $line > 0 ? join $/, @lines[0 .. $line - 1] : ''; my $post = $line < $#lines ? join $/, @lines[$line + 1 .. $#lines] : ''; my $error = "$/$/# ------------------- ERROR line $rline in template $filename -----------------$/"; my $last = $LAST_EXCEPTION; $LAST_EXCEPTION =~ s#$/# #g; $error .= "# $last$/$lines[$line]$/"; if ($html) { for ($pre, $error, $post) { s//>/g; } $message = <<"EOM";
$pre
$error
$post
EOM } else { $message .= $pre; $message .= $error; $message .= $post; } } else { $message = $LAST_EXCEPTION; } return $message; } my $version_pod = <<'=cut'; =pod =head1 NAME HTML::Template::Compiled - Template System Compiles HTML::Template files to Perl code =head1 VERSION $VERSION = "1.000_002" =cut sub __test_version { my $v = __PACKAGE__->VERSION; my ($v_test) = $version_pod =~ m/VERSION\s*=\s*"(.+)"/m; no warnings; return $v eq $v_test ? 1 : 0; } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 SYNOPSIS use HTML::Template::Compiled; # recommended options: # case_sensitive => 1 # search_path_on_include => 1 # use_query => 0 # default_escape => 'HTML' # <-- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED # note that the following # use HTML::Template::Compiled speed => 1 # is deprecated (can be problematic under persistent environments) # or for the biggest compatibility with HTML::Template # case_sensitive => 0 # search_path_on_include => 0 # use_query => 1 # note that the following # use HTML::Template::Compiled compatible => 1; # is deprecated (can be problematic under persistent environments) # or use HTML::Template::Compiled::Classic my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( filename => 'test.tmpl', case_sensitive => 1, default_escape => 'HTML', ); $htc->param( BAND => $name, ALBUMS => [ { TITLE => $t1, YEAR => $y1 }, { TITLE => $t2, YEAR => $y2 }, ], ); print $htc->output; test.tmpl: Band: Title: () Or use different tag styles: Band: <%= BAND %> <%loop ALBUMS %> Title: <%= TITLE %> (<%= YEAR %>) <%/loop %> Band: [%= BAND %] [%loop ALBUMS %] Title: [%= TITLE %] ([%= YEAR %]) [%/loop %] =head1 DESCRIPTION HTML::Template::Compiled is a template system which can be used for L templates with almost the same API. It offers more flexible template delimiters, additional tags and features, and by compiling the template into perl code it can run significantly faster in persistent environments such as FastCGI or mod_perl. The goal is to offer more features for flexibility but keep the basic syntax as easy as it is. Features at a glance: =over 4 =item Dot notation for objects, hashes and arrays =item Use expressions without any disadvantages like those in L =item Write escaping plugins and plugins for new tags =item Alternate delimiters, e.g. C<[%if %]> and C<< <%if %> >> =item Avoid C option by using the C tag to create aliases. =item Tags ELSIF, EACH, WHILE, COMMENT, WRAPPER, SWITCH/CASE, INCLUDE_VAR =item Chomp newlines/whitespace =back For a quick reference, see L. As the basic features work like in L, please get familiar with its documentation before. HTML::Template::Compiled (HTC) does not implement all features of L (see L<"COMPATIBILITY">), and it has got some additional features which are explained below: L<"ADDITIONAL FEATURES"> See L<"BENCHMARKS"> for some examples on the performance. Since it depends highly on the options used and on the template size there can be no general statement on its performance. You might want to use L for CGI environments as it doesn't parse the template before calling output. But note that HTC::Lazy isn't much tested, and I don't use it myself, so there's a lack of experience. If you use it and have problems, please report. HTC will use a lot of memory because it keeps all template objects in memory. If you are on mod_perl, and have a lot of templates, you should preload them at server startup to be sure that it is in shared memory. At the moment HTC is not fully tested for keeping all data in shared memory (e.g. when a copy-on-write occurs), but it seems like it's behaving well. For preloading you can use HTML::Template::Compiled->preload($dir). Generating code, writing it on disk and later eval() it can open security holes, for example if you have more users on the same machine that can access the same files (usually an http server running as 'www' or 'nobody'). See L<"SECURITY"> for details what you can do to safe yourself. NOTE: If you don't need any of the additional features listed below and if you don't need the speed (in many cases it's probably not worth trading speed for memory), then you might be better off with just using HTML::Template. NOTE2: If you have any questions, bug reports, send them to me and not to Sam Tregar. This module is developed by me at the moment, independently from HTML::Template, although I try to get most of the tests from it passing for HTC. See L<"RESOURCES"> for current information. =head2 FEATURES FROM HTML::TEMPLATE =over 4 =item TMPL_VAR =item TMPL_LOOP =item TMPL_(IF|UNLESS|ELSE) =item TMPL_INCLUDE =item HTML_TEMPLATE_ROOT =item ESCAPE=(HTML|URL|JS|0) =item DEFAULT=... =item C<__first__>, C<__last__>, C<__inner__>, C<__outer__>, C<__odd__>, C<__counter__>, C<__even__> =item =item case insensitive var names use option case_sensitive => 0 to use this feature (slow down) =item filters =item vars that are subrefs - not implemented, only in HTML::Template::Compiled::Classic =item scalarref, arrayref, filehandle =item C =item C Has a bug (doesn't return parameters in included files of included files). I'm working on that. =back =head2 ADDITIONAL FEATURES What can HTC do for you additionally to HTML::Template? =over 4 =item tag TMPL_ELSIF No need to have cascading "if-else-if-else"s =item tag TMPL_EACH Iterate over a hash. See L<"TMPL_EACH"> =item tag TMPL_WITH see L<"TMPL_WITH"> =item tag TMPL_WHILE see L<"TMPL_WHILE"> =item tag TMPL_SET_VAR see L<"SET_VAR"> =item tag TMPL_USE_VARS see L<"USE_VARS"> =item tags TMPL_COMMENT, TMPL_NOPARSE, TMPL_VERBATIM see L<"TMPL_COMMENT">, L<"TMPL_NOPARSE">, L<"TMPL_VERBATIM"> =item tag TMPL_WRAPPER see L<"WRAPPER"> =item C<__index__> Additional loop variable (C<__counter__ -1>) =item C<__break__> Additional loop variable (see L<"TMPL_LOOP">) =item C<__filename__>, C<__filenameshort__> (since 0.91_001) Insert the template filename for debugging: <%= __filename__ %> <%= __filenameshort__ %> will turn out as: templates/path/file.html path/file.html See also option debug_file in L<"OPTIONS"> for adding the filename globally. =item tags TMPL_SWITCH, TMPL_CASE see L<"TMPL_SWITCH"> =item C Include perl code in your template. See L<"RUNNING PERL WITH TMPL_PERL"> =item CHOMP New in version 0.96_001, please report any bugs and send me suggestions. You can set global chomp options in the constructor. These work like in Template-Toolkit: my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( pre_chomp => 0, # 0, 1, 2, 3, default 0 post_chomp => 1, # 0, 1, 2, 3, default 0 ); Meaning of the values: 0: Don't chomp 1: remove only spaces in the line before or after the tag 2: remove all whitespaces before or after the tag, and replace with one space 3: remove all whitespaces before or after the tag In the template you can change that feature by using PRE_CHOMP and POST_CHOMP attributes: <%= foo PRE_CHOMP=3 POST_CHOMP=1 %> The experimental tags +..._chomp have been removed. =item Generating perl code See L<"IMPLEMENTATION"> =item better variable access dot-notation for accessing hash values. See L<"EXTENDED VARIABLE ACCESS"> =item rendering objcets dot-notation for accessing object methods. See L<"RENDERING OBJECTS"> =item output to filehandle See L<"OPTIONS"> =item Dynamic includes C, C. See L<"INCLUDE"> =item tag TMPL_IF_DEFINED Check for definedness instead of truth: =item ALIAS Set an alias for a loop variable. You can use the alias then with C<$alias>. The syntax without the C<$> is also possible but not recommended any more. For example, these two loops are functionally equivalent: This works with C and C at the moment. You can also set aliases with the C tag. See L<"SET_VAR"> To use template parameters with a C<$> at the beginning (which is not officially supported, but some are obviously using it), you can set: local $HTML::Template::Compiled::Compiler::DISABLE_NEW_ALIAS = 1; This is only a temporary workaround and will be removed some day! Note that you are also able to access variables with dollar signs like this: since underscore means current position in the parameter stash, and aliases are only recognized at the beginning of a template var. But note that dollar signs are still not officially supported. =item Chained escaping See L<"ESCAPING"> =item tagstyles For those who like it (i like it because it is shorter than TMPL_), you can use E% %E tags and the E%= tag instead of E%VAR (which will work, too): <%IF blah%> <%= VARIABLE%> <%/IF%> Define your own tagstyles and/or deactivate predefined ones. See L<"OPTIONS"> tagstyle. =item pre_chomp, post_chomp See L<"CHOMP"> =back =head2 MISSING AND DIFFERENT FEATURES There are some features of H::T that are missing or behaving different. I'll try to list them here. =head3 MISSING FEATURES =over 4 =item die_on_bad_params I don't think I'll implement that. =item force_untaint Not planned at the moment =item vanguard_compatibility_mode Not planned. =item shared_cache, double_cache Not planned at the moment =item blind_cache Not sure if I should implement. In HTC you have the possibility to set the expire time of the templates (after that time in memory the template file is rechecked if it has changed), so setting a very high value for expire_time would have the same effect as blind_cache. See L<"CACHING"> C =item double_file_cache If I understand correctly, in HT, this enables memory and file cache at the same time. In HTC, this is not needed. If you use file_cache and cache, both are used. =item file_cache_dir_mode Not planned. The cache dir must exist, and subdirectories are not created at the moment. =item cache_lazy_vars, cache_lazy_loops Not planned at the moment (This would be for HTML::Template::Compiled::Classic, since it implements code refs). =item utf8 Might be added in the future, HTC already has C =item various debug options Might be implemented in the future =item associate Not planned. =item max_includes Not planned =item die_on_missing_include Maybe =back =head3 DIFFERENT FEATURES =over 4 =item case_sensitive default is 1 (on). Deactivate by passing option expire_time 0. Note (again): this will slow down templating a lot (50%). Explanation: This has nothing to do with C or C. It's about the variable names. With case_sensitive set to 1, the following tags are different: prints the value of hash key 'Foo' prints the value of hash key 'fOO' With case_sensitive set to 0, all your parameters passed to C are converted to lowercase, and the following tags are the same: prints the value of hash key 'foo' prints the value of hash key 'foo' =item subref variables As of version 0.69, subref variables are not supported any more with HTML::Template::Compiled. Use L (contained in this distribution) instead. It provides most features of HTC. =item search_path_on_include Default: 0 In the HTML::Template documentation it says, if search_path_on_include is set to 1, the paths of the path option are searched, while the default behaviour is to look "only" in the current template directory. It's not clear if it still searches in the current directory if set to 1. I found out that it is not, so you cannot have both. In HTML::Template::Compiled, search_path_on_include can have three values: 0: search current template directory 1: search paths specified 2: search paths and current template directory. =item open_mode In HTC you should leave out the C<<> at the beginning. If you want to have your templates read in utf-8, use open_mode => ':encoding(utf-8)', as an option. =item use_query default is 0 (off). Set it via the option C =item Arrayrefs At the moment this snippet truefalse with this code: $htc->param(arrayref => []); will print true in HTC and false in HTML::Template. In HTML::Template an array is true if it has content, in HTC it's true if it (the reference) is defined. I'll try to find a way to change that behaviour, though that might be for the cost of speed. As of L 0.85 you can use this syntax: truefalse In L 0.04 it works as in HTML::Template. =item debug_cache Additional to 0 or 1 it can take an array ref for debugging only specific cache operations. =back Note: the following is deprecated: To be compatible in all of the above options all use: use HTML::Template::Compiled compatible => 1; If you don't care about these options you should use use HTML::Template::Compiled speed => 1; which is the default but depending on user wishes that might change. =head2 DEPRECATED =over 4 =item class methods ExpireTime, EnableSub, CaseSensitive, SearchPathOnInclude, UseQuery =item option formatter_path =item tag USE_VARS, not needed anymore =item option cache_dir (replaced by file_cache_dir) =item options method_call, deref, default_path, dumper =item import tags short, compatible, speed =back =head2 ESCAPING Like in HTML::Template, you have C, C and C. C will only escape '"&<>. If you want to escape more, use C. Additionally you have C, which by default will generate a Data::Dumper output. You can also chain different escapings, like C. Additionally to ESCAPE=JS you have ESCAPE=IJSON which does not escape the single quote. =head2 INCLUDE Additionally to you can do an include of a template variable: $htc->param(file_include_var => "file.htc"); Using C is deprecated. You can also include strings: template: inc: <%include_string foo %> code: $htc->param( foo => 'included=<%= bar%>', bar => 'real', ); output: inc: included=real Note that included strings are not cached and cannot include files or strings themselves. =head2 EXTENDED VARIABLE ACCESS With HTC, you have more control over how you access your template parameters. An example: my %hash = ( SELF => '/path/to/script.pl', LANGUAGE => 'de', BAND => 'Bauhaus', ALBUMS => [ { NAME => 'Mask', SONGS => [ { NAME => 'Hair of the Dog' }, ... ], }, ], INFO => { BIOGRAPHY => '...', LINK => '...' }, NAME => "Cool script", ); Now in the TMPL_LOOP C you would like to access the path to your script, stored in $hash{SELF}. in HTML::Template you have to set the option C, so you can access C<$hash{SELF}> from everywhere. Unfortunately, now C is also global, which might not a problem in this simple example, but in a more complicated template this is impossible. With HTC, you wouldn't use C here, but you can say: to access the root element, and you could even say C<.INFO.BIOGRAPHY> or C (the latter has changed since version 0.79) =head2 RENDERING OBJECTS This is still in development, so I might change the API here. Additionally to feeding a simple hash to HTC, you can feed it objects. To do method calls you can also use '.' in the template. my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... ); $htc->param( VAR => "blah", OBJECT => bless({...}, "Your::Class"), ); Name: C will call the fullname method of your Your::Class object. It's recommended to just use the default . value for methods and dereferencing. I might stop supporting that you can set the values for method calls by setting an option. Ideally I would like to have that behaviour changed only by inheriting. =head2 RUNNING PERL WITH TMPL_PERL Yes, templating systems are for separating code and templates. But as it turned out to be implemented much easier than expressions i decided to implement it. But expressions are also available with the option C. Note: If you have templates that can be edited by untrustworthy persons then you don't want them to include perl code. So, how do you use the perl-tag? First, you have to set the option C to C<1> when creating a template object. Important note: don't use C in the included code. Usually the template code is concatenated and returned to your perl script. To 'print' something out use __OUT__ 2**3; This will be turned into something like $OUT .= 2**3; # or print $fh 2**3; Important note 2: HTC does not parse Perl. if you use the classic tag-delimiters like this: count > 42) { > this will not work as it might seem. Use other delimiters instead: <%perl if (__CURRENT__->count > 42) { %> Example: # takes the current position of the parameter # hash, key 'foo' and multiplies it with 3 <%perl __OUT__ __CURRENT__->{foo} * 3; %> List of special keywords inside a perl-tag: =over 4 =item __OUT__ Is turned into C<$OUT .=> or C =item __HTC__ Is turned into the variable containing the current template object. =item __CURRENT__ Turned into the variable containing the current position in the parameter hash. =item __ROOT__ Turned into the variable containig the parameter hash. =item __INDEX__ Turned into the current index of a loop (starting with 0). =back =head2 INHERITANCE It's possible since version 0.69 to inherit from HTML::Template::Compiled. It's just not documented, and internal method names might change in the near future. I'll try to fix the API and document which methods you can inherit. =head3 METHODS TO INHERIT =over 4 =item method_call Default is C =item deref Default is C =item formatter_path Deprecated, see L please. =item compile_early Define if every included file should be checked and parsed at compile time of the including template or later when it is really used. Default is C =item parser_class Default is C You can write your own parser class (which must inherit from L) and use this. L uses this. =back =head2 DEBUGGING For printing out the contents of all the parameters you can do: Dump: The special name C<_> gives you the current parameter and C will by default generate a Data::Dumper output of the current variable, in this case it will dump out the contents of every album in a loop. To correctly display that in html C<|HTML> will escape html entities. =head2 TMPL_WITH If you have a deep leveled hash you might not want to always write THE.FULL.PATH.TO.YOUR.VAR. Jump to your desired level once and then you need only one level. Compare: : : Inside TMPL_WITH you can't reference parent nodes unless you're using global_vars. =head2 TMPL_LOOP The special name C<_> gives you the current parameter. In loops you can use it like this: Current item: Also you can give the current item an alias. See L<"ALIAS">. The LOOP tag allows you to define a JOIN attribute: This will output something like C. This is easier than doing: , The C, C and C tags allow you to define a BREAK attribute: \n $htc->param(bingo => [qw(X 0 _ _ X 0 _ _ X)]); outputs X 0 _ _ X 0 _ _ X So specifying BREAK=3 sets __break__ to 1 every 3rd loop iteration. TMPL_LOOP expects an array reference, also if it is a method call. If you want to iterate with TMPL_LOOP over a list from a method call, set the attribute C: =head2 TMPL_WHILE Useful for iterating, for example over database resultsets. The directive will work like: while (my $row = $resultset->fetchrow) { print $row->[0]; } So the special variable name _ is set to the current item returned by the iterator. You also can use L<"ALIAS"> here. =head2 TMPL_EACH Iterating over a hash. Internally it is not implemented as an each, so you can also sort the output: Sorted alphanumerically by default (since 0.93): : Sorted numerically: : Not sorted: : Sorted alphanumerically: : You have to set the option C to true to use the special vars C<__key__> and C<__value__>. If you want to iterate over a hash instead of a hashref (some methods might return plain hashes instead of references and TMPL_EACH expects a ref), then you can set C: Since 1.000_001 you can also define by which variable you want to sort. If you have a hash with hashes as values: $htc->param( letters => { 1 => { letter =>'b' }, 2 => { letter =>'a' }, 3 => { letter =>'c' }, }, ); <%each letters sort=alpha sortby="letter" %> <%set_var val value=__value__ %> <%= __key__ %> = <%= $val.letter %> <%/each%> =head2 SET_VAR Since 0.96_002 Sets a local variable to the value given in C or C ... C behaves like a variable name from the parameter stash. The variable name to set must match /[0-9a-z_]+/i You can refer to an alias via C<$alias> or simply C. Note that the latter syntax is not recommeded any more since it can conflict with parameters from the stash. If you want to use aliases in includes, you need to use the C<$alias> syntax. =head2 USE_VARS deprecated. Was added in 0.96_004 to make it possible to use aliases set with C or C in includes. Now you should rather use the <$alias> syntax. The following explanation is just there for history and will be removed some time in the future. For now it still works. Necessary if you want vars like SET_VAR and loop aliases from outside in includes. Before the first use in the include, add: so that the compiler recognizes them as user defined vars and not parameters from the stash. This statement is valid until the end of the template so you cannot "overwrite" parameters of the stash locally. =head2 WRAPPER Since 0.97_005. Experimental. Please test. Needs option C. Works similar to WRAPPER in Template-Toolkit. Is similar to TMPL_INCLUDE, just that the included wrapper is wrapped around the content. It can be used to avoid including head and foot separately. content: some var: In wrapper.html the special loop context var C<__wrapper__> is used for the included content: wrapper.html: Important notes: If you are using C to print directly to a filehandle instead of returning to a string, this feature might not be useful, since it is appending the content inside of the wrapper to a string and prints it when it comes to the end of the wrapper tag. So if you are using C to avoid generating long strings in memory, you should rather use TMPL_INCLUDE instead. Also you need perl 5.8 or higher to use it in combination with out_fh. =head2 TMPL_COMMENT For debugging purposes you can temporarily comment out regions: Wanted: this won't be printed $htc->param(unwanted => "no thanks", wanted => "we want this"); The output is (whitespaces stripped): Wanted: we want this HTC will ignore anything between COMMENT directives. This is useful for debugging, and also for documentation inside the template which should not be outputted. =head2 TMPL_NOPARSE Anything between ... will not be recognized as template directives. Same syntax as TMPL_COMMENT. It will output the content, though. =head2 TMPL_VERBATIM Anything between ... will not be recognized as template directives. Same syntax as L<"TMPL_NOPARSE">, but it will be HTML-Escaped. This can be useful for debugging. =head2 TMPL_SWITCH The SWITCH directive has the same syntax as VAR, IF etc. The CASE directive takes a simple string or a comma separated list of strings. Yes, without quotes. This will probably change! I just don't know yet how it should look like. Suggestions? With that directive you can do simple string comparisons. (or ) echt cool very cool superculo don't speak french or swedish sorry, no translation for cool in language <%=language%> available (same as default) It's also possible to specify the default with a list of other strings: Note that the default case should always be the last statement before the closing switch. =head2 OPTIONS As you can cache the generated perl code in files, some of the options are fixed; that means for example if you set the option case_sensitive to 0 and the next time you call the same template with case_sensitive 1 then this will be ignored. The options below will be marked as (fixed). =over 4 =item path Path to template files =item search_path_on_include Search the list of paths specified with C when including a template. Default is 0 See L<"DIFFERENT FEATURES"> for the additional possible value 2. =item file_cache Set to 1 if you want to use file caching and specify the path with file_cache_dir. =item file_cache_dir Path to caching directory (you have to create it before) =item cache_dir Replaced by file_cache_dir like in L. Will be deprecated in future versions. =item cache Is 1 by default. If set to 0, no memory cacheing is done. Only recommendable if you have a dynamic template content (with scalarref, arrayre for example). =item expire_time Recheck template files on disk after C seconds. See L<"CACHING"> =item filename Template to parse =item scalarref Reference to a scalar with your template content. It's possible to cache scalarrefs, too, if you have Digest::MD5 installed. Note that your cache directory might get filled with files from earlier versions. Clean the cache regularly. Don't cache scalarrefs if you have dynamic strings. Your memory might get filled up fast! Use the option cache => 0 to disable memory caching. =item arrayref Reference to array containing lines of the template content (newlines have to be included) =item filehandle Filehandle which contains the template content. Note that HTC will not cache templates created like this. =item loop_context_vars (fixed) Vars like C<__first__>, C<__last__>, C<__inner__>, C<__odd__>, C<__counter__>, C<__index__>, C<__outer__>, C<__even__> The variable C<__index__> works just like C<__counter__>, only that it starts at 0 instead of 1. =item global_vars (fixed) If set to 1, every outer variable can be accessed from anywhere in the enclosing scope. Default is 0. Note that I don't recommend using global_vars. For referring to parameters up in the stash you can use aliases via C or C. See L<"ALIAS"> and L<"SET_VAR">. If yoy still would like to be able to navigate up the parameter stash, you have the following option: If set to 2, you don't have global vars, but have the possibility to go up the stack one level. Example: This will get you up 2 levels (remember: one dot means root in HTC) and access the 'key' element. If set to 3 (C<3 == 1|2>) you have both, global vars and explicitly going up the stack. So setting global_vars to 2 can save you from global vars but still allows you to browse through the stack. =item default_escape my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... default_escape => 'HTML', # or URL ); Now everything will be escaped for HTML unless you explicitly specify C (no escaping) or C. =item strict (since 0.97_001) Default: 1 If set to 0 unknown tags will be ignored and output verbatim: =item no_includes (since 0.92) Default is 0. If set to 1, the tags INCLUDE, INCLUDE_VAR and INCLUDE_STRING will cause a template syntax error when creating. This can be useful when opening untrusted templates, otherwise any file in the filesystem could be opened. =item debug_file (fixed) (since 0.91_001) Additionally to the context_vars __filename__ and __filenameshort__ you can enable filename debugging globally. If the option is set to 'start', at the start of every template will be added: If set to 'end', at the end will be added: If set to 'start,end', both coments will be added. If set to 'start,short', 'end,short' or 'start,end,short' the path to the templates will be stripped: =item objects (fixed) (since 0.91_001) if set to true, you can use method calls like <%= object.method %> Default is 'strict' (true). If set to 'strict', the method will be called if we have an object, otherwise it's treated as a hash lookup. If the method doesn't exist, it dies. If set to 'nostrict', the method will be called only if the object 'can' do the method, otherwise it will return undef (this will need Scalar::Util). If set to 0, no method calls are allowed. =item deref (fixed) Deprecated. Please inherit and overwrite method 'deref'. See L<"INHERITANCE"> Define the string you want to use for dereferencing, default is C<.> at the moment: =item method_call (fixed) Deprecated. Please inherit and overwrite method 'method_call'. See L<"INHERITANCE"> Define the string you want to use for method calls, default is . at the moment: Don't use ->, though, like you could in earlier version. Var names can contain: Numbers, letters, '.', '/', '+', '-' and '_', just like HTML::Template. Note that if your var names contain dots, though, they will be treated as hash dereferences. If you want literal dots, use L instead. =item default_path (fixed) Deprecated, see L please. my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... default_path # default is PATH_DEREF => HTML::Template::Compiled::Utils::PATH_FORMATTER, ); Is needed if you have an unqualified tmpl_var that should be resolved as a call to your formatter, for example. Otherwise you have to call it fully qualified. If your formatter_path is '/', you'd say tmpl_var C<_/method>. With the option default_path you can make that the default, so you don't need the C<_/>: C. If you don't use formatters, don't care about this option. =item line_numbers NOTE: This option does not exist any more; line numbers will alway be reported. For debugging: prints the line number of the wrong tag, e.g. if you have a /TMPL_IF that does not have an opening tag. =item case_sensitive (fixed) default is 1, set it to 0 to use this feature like in HTML::Template. Note that this can slow down your program a lot (50%). =item dumper This option is deprecated as of version 0.76. You must now use a plugin instead, like L, for examle. my $t = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... dumper = sub { my_cool_dumper($_[0]) }, ); --- This will call C on C. Alternatively you can use the DHTML plugin which is using C and C. You'll get a dumper like output which you can collapse and expand, for example. See L and L for more information. Example: my $t = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... dumper = 'DHTML', ); For an example see C. =item out_fh (fixed) my $t = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... out_fh => 1, ); ... $t->output($fh); # or output(\*STDOUT) or even output() This option is fixed, so if you create a template with C, every output of this template will print to a specified (or default C) filehandle. =item filter Filter template code before parsing. my $t = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... filter => sub { myfilter( ${$_[0]} ) }, # or filter => [ { sub => sub { myfilter( ${$_[0]} ) }, format => 'scalar', # or array }, ... ], ); =item tagstyle (fixed) Specify which styles you want to use. This option takes an arrayref with strings of named tagstyles or your own regexes. At the moment there are the following named tagstyles builtin: # classic (active by default) # comment (active by default) # asp (active by default) <%if foo%><%VAR bar%><%/if%> # php (not active by default) # tt (not active by default) [%if foo%][%var bar%][%/if foo%] You deactive a style by saying -stylename. You activate by saying +stylename. Define your own tagstyle by specifying for regexes. For example you want to use {C<{if foo}}{{var bar}}{{/if foo}}>, then your definition should be: [ qr({{), # start of opening tag qr(}}), # end of opening tag qr({{/), # start of closing tag qr(}}), # end of closing tag ] NOTE: do not specify capturing parentheses in you regexes. If you need parentheses, use C<(?:foo|bar)> instead of C<(foo|bar)>. Say you want to deactivate asp-style, comment-style, activate php- and tt-style and your own C<{{}} > style, then say: my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... tagstyle => [ qw(-asp -comment +php +tt), [ qr({{), qr(}}), qr({{/), qr(}})], ], ); =item use_expressions (since 0.91_003) Set to 1 if you want to use expressions. The basic expressions work more or less like in L - I took the parsing code from it and used it with some minor changes - thanks to Sam Tregar. <%if expr="some.var > 3" %>It's grater than 3<%/if %> But with expressions you can also use more complex navigation through the template stash: You can use object methods with parameters. While a normal method call can only be called without parameters, like <%= object.name %> with expressions you can give it parameters: <%= expr="object.create_link('navi')" %> Inside function and method calls, hash keys you also can use template vars (array indices and hash keys since 0.96_003). <%= expr=".path.to.hash{var}" %> <%= expr=".path.to.hash{.another.var[123]}{'literal key'}" %> It is only minimally tested yet, so use with care and please report any bugs you find. A useful example: Output a number of items with their prices formatted. my $nf = Number::Format->new(...); my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( filename => 'items.html', use_expressions => 1, ); $htc->param( items => [ { size => 50 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, price => 49.95 }, { size => 250 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, price => 110.99 }, ], nf => $nf, ); items.html: <%loop .items %> Size: <%= expr=".nf.format_bytes(size)" %> Price: <%= expr=".nf.format_price(price)" %> <%/loop %> Output: Size: 50G Price: 49,95 EUR Size: 250G Price: 110,99 EUR =item formatter Deprecated, see L please. With formatter you can specify how an object should be rendered. This is useful if you don't want object methods to be called, but only a given subset of methods. my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... formatter => { 'Your::Class' => { fullname => sub { $_[0]->first . ' ' . $_[0]->last }, first => Your::Class->can('first'), last => Your::Class->can('last'), }, }, ); # $obj is a Your::Class object $htc->param(obj => $obj); # Template: # Fullname: =item formatter_path (fixed) Deprecated, see L please. =item debug If set to 1 you will get the generated perl code on standard error =item use_query Set it to 1 if you plan to use the query() method. Default is 0. Explanation: If you want to use query() to collect information on the template HTC has to do extra-work while compiling and uses extra-memory, so you can choose to save HTC work by setting use_query to 0 (default) or letting HTC do the extra work by setting it to 1. If you would like 1 to be the default, write me. If enough people write me, I'll think abou it =) =item use_perl Set to 1 if you want to use the perl-tag. See L<"TMPL_PERL">. Default is 0. =item cache_debug Default: 0 You can debug hits and misses for file cache and memory cache: # debug all cache my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( cache_debug => 1, ... ); # only debug misses my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( cache_debug => [qw/ file_miss mem_miss /], ... ); Possible values when passing an array ref: file_miss file_hit mem_miss mem_hit Output looks similar to HTML::Template cache_debug and will be output to STDERR via warn(). =back =head2 METHODS =over 4 =item clear_cache ([DIR]) Class method. It will clear the memory cache either of a specified cache directory: HTML::Template::Compiled->clear_cache($cache_dir); or all memory caches: HTML::Template::Compiled->clear_cache(); =item clear_filecache Class- or object-method. Removes all generated perl files from a given directory. # clear a directory HTML::Template::Compiled->clear_filecache('cache_directory'); # clear this template's cache directory (and not one template file only!) $htc->clear_filecache(); =item param Works like in L. =item query Works like in L. But it is not activated by default. If you want to use it, specify the use_query option. =item preload Class method. Will preload all template files from a given cachedir into memory. Should be done, for example in a mod_perl environment, at server startup, so all templates go into "shared memory" HTML::Template::Compiled->preload($cache_dir); If you don't do preloading in mod_perl, memory usage might go up if you have a lot of templates. Note: the directory is *not* the template directory. It should be the directory which you give as the file_cache_dir option. =item precompile Class method. It will precompile a list of template files into the specified cache directory. See L<"PRECOMPILE">. =item clear_params Empty all parameters. =item debug_code (since 0.91_003) If you get an error from the generated template, you might want to debug the executed code. You can now call C to get the compiled code and the line the error occurred. Note that the reported line might not be the exact line where the error occurred, also look around the line. The template filename reported does currently only report the main template, not the name of an included template. I'll try to fix that. local $HTML::Template::Compiled::DEBUG = 1; my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( filename => 'some_file_with_runtime_error.html', ); eval { print $htc->output; }; if ($@) { # reports as text my $msg = $htc->debug_code; # reports as a html table my $msg_html = $htc->debug_code('html'); } =item get_plugin my $plugin = $htc->get_plugin('Name::of::plugin'); Returns the plugin object of that classname. If the plugin is only a string (the classname itself), it returns this string, so this method is only useful for plugin objects. =item var2expression Useful for plugins. Parses a template var (C and returns the perl expression for the compiler. =back =head1 EXPORT None. =head1 CACHING You create a template almost like in HTML::Template: my $t = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( path => 'templates', loop_context_vars => 1, filename => 'test.html', # for testing without cache comment out file_cache => 1, file_cache_dir => "cache", ); The next time you start your application and create a new template, HTC will read all generated perl files, and a call to the constructor like above won't parse the template, but just use the loaded code. If your template file has changed, though, then it will be parsed again. You can set the expire time of a template by passing the option expire_time => $seconds Note that HTML::Template::Compiled->ExpireTime($seconds); C<$HTML::Template::Compiled::NEW_CHECK> are deprecated since they change a global variable which is then visible in the whole process, so in persistent environments other apps might be affected. So an expire time of 600 seconds (default) will check after 10 minutes if the tmpl file was modified. Set it to a very high value will then ignore any changes, until you delete the generated code. For development you should set it to 0, for a pre-production server you can set it to 60 seconds, for example. It can make quite a difference. =head1 PLUGINS At the moment you can use and write plugins for the C attribute. See L for an example how to use it; and have a look at the source code if you want to know how to write a plugin yourself. Using Plugins: my $htc = HTML::Template::Compiled->new( ... plugin => ['HTML::Template::Compiled::Foo::Bar'], # oor shorter: plugin => ['::Foo::Bar'], ); =head1 LAZY LOADING Let's say you're in a CGI environment and have a lot of includes in your template, but only few of them are actually used. HTML::Template::Compiled will (as L does) parse all of your includes at once. Just like the C function does in perl. To get a behaviour like require, use L. =head1 TODO associate, methods with simple parameters, expressions, pluggable, ... =head1 IMPLEMENTATION HTC generates a perl subroutine out of every template. Each included template is a subroutine for itself. You can look at the generated code by activating file caching and looking into the cache directory. When you call C, the subroutine is called. The subroutine either creates a string and adds each template text or the results of the tags to the string, or it prints it directly to a filehandle. Because of the implementation you have to know at creation time of the module if you want to get a string back or if you want to print to a filehandle. =head1 SECURITY HTML::Template::Compiled uses basically the same file caching model as, for example, Template- Toolkit does: The compiled Perl code is written to disk and later reread via C or by reading the file and C the content. If you are sharing a read/write environment with untrusted users (for example on a machine with a webserver, like many webhosters offer, and all scripts are running as the same httpd user), realize that there is possibility of modifying the Perl code that is cached and then executed. The best solution is to not be in such an environment! In this case it is the safest option to generate your compiled templates on a local machine and just put the compiled templates onto the server, with no write access for the http server. Set the C option to a high value so that HTC never attempts to check the template timestamp to force a regenerating of the code. If you are alone on the machine, but you are running under taint mode (see L) then you have to explicitly set the C<$UNTAINT> variable to 1. HTC will then untaint the code for you and treat it as if it were safe (it hopefully is =). =head1 PRECOMPILE I think there is no way to provide an easy function for precompiling, because every template can have different options. If you have all your templates with the same options, then you can use the precompile class method. It works like this: HTML::Template::Compiled->precompile( # usual options like path, default_escape, global_vars, file_cache_dir, ... filenames => [ list of template-filenames ], ); This will then pre-compile all templates into file_cache_dir. Now you would just put this directory onto the server, and it doesn't need any write-permissions, as it will be never changed (until you update it because templates have changed). =head1 BENCHMARKS The options C, C and C can have the biggest influence on speed. Setting case_sensitive to 1, loop_context_vars to 0 and global_vars to 0 saves time. On the other hand, compared to HTML::Template, you have a large speed gain under mod_perl if you use case_sensitive = 1, loop_context_vars = 0, With CGI HTC is slower. See the C contained in this distribution. Here are some examples from the benchmark script. I'm showing only Template::AutoFilter, Template::HTML, HTML::Template and HTC. These four modules allow to set automatic HTML escaping ('filter') for all variables. loop_context_vars 1 global_vars 0 case_sensitive 1 default_escape HTML (respectively Template::AutoFilter and Template::HTML) ht: HTML::Template 2.10 htc: HTML::Template::Compiled 0.95 ttaf: Template::AutoFilter 0.112350 with Template 2.22 tth: Template::HTML 0.02 with Template 2.22 First test is with the test.(htc|tt) from the examples directory, about 900 bytes. Test without file cache and without memory cache. all_ht: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.40 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.40 CPU) @ 250.00/s (n=100) all_htc: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.74 usr + 0.01 sys = 1.75 CPU) @ 57.14/s (n=100) all_ttaf_new_object: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.69 usr + 0.01 sys = 1.70 CPU) @ 58.82/s (n=100) all_tth_new_object: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.44 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.44 CPU) @ 69.44/s (n=100) With file cache: all_ht: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.03 usr + 0.01 sys = 1.04 CPU) @ 379.81/s (n=395) all_htc: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.07 CPU) @ 260.75/s (n=279) all_ttaf_new_object: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr + 0.04 sys = 1.11 CPU) @ 251.35/s (n=279) all_tth_new_object: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.01 usr + 0.04 sys = 1.05 CPU) @ 227.62/s (n=239) With memory cache: all_ht: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.04 CPU) @ 461.54/s (n=480) all_htc: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.05 usr + 0.01 sys = 1.06 CPU) @ 3168.87/s (n=3359) process_ttaf: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.04 CPU) @ 679.81/s (n=707) process_tth: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.05 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.05 CPU) @ 609.52/s (n=640) Now I'm using a template with about 18Kb by multiplying the example template 20 times. You can see that everything is running slower but some run more slower than others. Test without file cache and without memory cache. all_ht: 8 wallclock secs ( 7.57 usr + 0.04 sys = 7.61 CPU) @ 13.14/s (n=100) all_htc: 32 wallclock secs (32.08 usr + 0.06 sys = 32.14 CPU) @ 3.11/s (n=100) all_ttaf_new_object: 36 wallclock secs (36.21 usr + 0.04 sys = 36.25 CPU) @ 2.76/s (n=100) all_tth_new_object: 29 wallclock secs (28.92 usr + 0.05 sys = 28.97 CPU) @ 3.45/s (n=100) With file cache: all_ht: 8 wallclock secs ( 7.22 usr + 0.00 sys = 7.22 CPU) @ 13.85/s (n=100) all_htc: 5 wallclock secs ( 5.32 usr + 0.00 sys = 5.32 CPU) @ 18.80/s (n=100) all_ttaf_new_object: 8 wallclock secs ( 7.59 usr + 0.15 sys = 7.74 CPU) @ 12.92/s (n=100) all_tth_new_object: 9 wallclock secs ( 8.74 usr + 0.19 sys = 8.93 CPU) @ 11.20/s (n=100) With memory cache: all_ht: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr + 0.01 sys = 1.05 CPU) @ 15.24/s (n=16) all_htc: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.12 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.12 CPU) @ 272.32/s (n=305) process_ttaf: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.07 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.07 CPU) @ 39.25/s (n=42) process_tth: 1 wallclock secs ( 1.05 usr + 0.00 sys = 1.05 CPU) @ 34.29/s (n=36) So the performance difference highly depends on the size of the template and on the various options. You can see that using the 900byte template HTC is slower with file cache than HTML::Template, but with the 18Kb template it's faster. =head1 EXAMPLES See L (and C) for an example how to feed objects to HTC. =head1 BUGS Probably many bugs I don't know yet =) Use the bugtracking system to report a bug: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTML-Template-Compiled =head1 Why another Template System? You might ask why I implement yet another templating system. There are so many to choose from. Well, there are several reasons. I like the syntax of HTML::Template *because* it is very restricted. It's also easy to use (template syntax and API). However, there are some things I miss I try to implement here. I think while HTML::Template is quite good, the implementation can be made more efficient (and still pure Perl). That's what I'm trying to achieve. I use it in my web applications, so I first write it for myself =) If I can efficiently use it, it was worth it. =head1 RESOURCES See http://htcompiled.sf.net/ for svn access. =head1 SEE ALSO L L L