[Templates] sending perl hash to template

[Mark Fowler]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, allan wrote:

> i have a complete hash in my main perl prgoram which i want to use in
> a template.

> my $vars = {
>   person  => %person,  
>   # or maybe \%person,
> };

You want to use a ref here (the '\%person') one.  See perlreftut and 
perlref[1] for more information on refs.

You can access the contents of the hash from within the template toolkit 
with the keys and values virtual methods like so:

    [% FOREACH key = product.keys %]
     [% key %] is [% product.$key %]
    [% END %]

This is documented in the vmethods page[2]

Mark.

[1] http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlreftut.html 
    http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlref.html

[2] http://www.tt2.org/docs/leon/Manual/VMethods.html#Hash_Virtual_Methods

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