HTML-Template-Pro version 0.58 ============================== DESCRIPTION Original HTML::Template is written by Sam Tregar, sam@tregar.com with contributions of many people mentioned there. Their efforts caused HTML::Template to be mature html tempate engine which separate perl code and html design. Yet powerful, HTML::Template is slow, especially if mod_perl isn't available or in case of disk usage and memory limitations. HTML::Template::Pro is a fast lightweight C/Perl+XS reimplementation of HTML::Template (as of 2.7) and HTML::Template::Expr (as of 0.0.4). It is not intended to be a complete replacement, but to be a fast implementation of HTML::Template if you don't need quering, the extended facility of HTML::Template. Designed for heavy upload, resource limitations, abcence of mod_perl. HTML::Template::Pro has complete support of filters and HTML::Template::Expr's tag EXPR="", including user-defined functions. HTML::Template work cycle uses 2 steps. First, it loads and parse template. Then it accepts param() calls until you call output(). output() is its second phase where it produces a page from the parsed tree of template, obtained in the 1st step. HTML::Template::Pro loads, parse and outputs template on fly, when you call $tmpl->output(), in one pass. The corresponding code is written in C and glued to Perl using Perl+XS. As a result, comparing to HTML::Template in ordinary calls, it runs 10-25 times faster. Comparing to HTML::Template with all caching enabled under mod_perl, it still 1-3 times faster. At that HTML::Template caching requires considerable amount of memory (per process, shareable, or on disk) to be permanently filled with parsed trees, whereas HTML::Template::Pro don't consumes memory for caches and use mmap() for reading templates on disk. INSTALLATION This module is tested on Linux and FreeBSD. There are success reports on MacOS X and Solaris. Windows users should look at README.win. It currently requires POSIX mmap() system call, which may be unavaliable on some systems. To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If you have libpcre installed try perl Makefile.PL PCRE=1 other optional parameters include DEBUG (build with extra debug level) and IMITATE (imitate behavior of HTML::Template even on broken templates) so a fully fledged build is perl Makefile.PL PCRE=1 DEBUG=1 IMITATE=1 DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: modules: File::Spec libraries: libpcre (optional) TODO Add support for die_on_bad_params => 1. Add support for quering. Improve debug message subsystem. WEBSITE You can find information about HTML::Template::Pro at: http://html-tmpl-pro.sourceforge.net and http://sourceforge.net/projects/html-tmpl-pro Original HTML::Template and other related modules are located at: http://html-template.sourceforge.net COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005 by I. Yu. Vlasenko. Pieces of code in Pro.pm and documentation of HTML::Template are copyright (C) 2000-2002 Sam Tregar (sam@tregar.com) The template syntax, interface conventions and a large piece of documentation of HTML::Template::Pro are based on CPAN mopule HTML::Template by Sam Tregar, sam@tregar.com. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.