[Templates] configuration files

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:42, Cahill, Earl wrote:
> 1.  I am wondering about a good way to handle conf files.  I would
> like to be able to do something like this
>  
> --index.html
> [% conf = INCLUDE values.conf %]
> ...
> bgcolor = [% conf.bgcolor %] 

Are you using Apache::Template?  Because otherwise, I think you'd be
much better off doing your config stuff on the Perl side before you call
TT.

Even if you are using A::T, you could subclass it and add your own
configuration data to it from the Perl side.  There is an example of
this in the docs.

> 2.  I would like to have key fallback on conf files.  So tt will keep
> processing conf files till it finds my key.

This is also easy to do if you do it in Perl before you call TT. 
Assuming you have a hash of default values and a hash of overrides:

my %values = (%defaults, %overrides);

- Perrin