"Perl Template Toolkit" Released by O'Reilly

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Scalable Templating for the Web
O'Reilly Releases "Perl Template Toolkit"
		
Sebastopol, CA--Among the many different approaches to "templating" with
Perl--such as Embperl, Mason, HTML::Template, and hundreds of other lesser
known systems--the Template Toolkit is widely recognized as one of the
most versatile. Like other templating systems, the Template Toolkit allows
programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros into HTML documents in
order to create customized documents on the fly. But unlike the others,
the Template Toolkit can produce PDF, XML, or any other output format as
easily as it produces HTML. And because it has its own simple templating
language, templates can be written and edited by people who don't know
Perl. In short, the Template Toolkit combines the best features of its
competitors with ease-of-use and flexibility, resulting in a technology
that's fast, powerful and extensible, and ideally suited to the production
and maintenance of web content and other dynamic document systems.

"Perl Template Toolkit" (O'Reilly, US $39.95) by Darren Chamberlain, David
Cross, and Andy Wardley is the first book to provide detailed coverage of
this popular technology. As coauthor Darren Chamberlain notes, "Most of
the available documentation on the Template Toolkit is just that:
documentation. There are very few tutorials or long-running examples
available, which means that people have to piece things together. With a
system as complex as the Template Toolkit, there are invariably gotchas
and tricks, but up until now, information about these has been available
only in the mailing list archives."

In "Perl Template Toolkit" readers learn how to build web sites and other
dynamic document systems in such a way that they can be updated, modified,
and re-branded quickly and easily.  Written by core members of the
technology's development team, the book moves through the entire process
of installing, configuring, using, and extending the Template Toolkit.

The book begins with a fast-paced but thorough tutorial on building web
content with the Template Toolkit, and then walks readers through the
process of generating and using data files, particularly with XML. It also
provides detailed information on the Template Toolkit's modules,
libraries, and tools in addition to a complete reference manual.  Readers
will learn to:

-Write templates in simple template language
-Populate templates from Perl scripts of the command line
-Design applications around templates to simplify development and
maintenance
-Incorporate templates into CGI scripts or mod_perl applications
-Use databases and XML with and from templates
-Use the standard plug-ins that ship with the Template Toolkit and write
custom plug-ins
-Use template filters for reusable postprocessing
-Create "skins" for web sites

The "Perl Template Toolkit" is essential reading for any Perl programmer
who wants to create dynamic web content that is remarkably easy to
maintain. This book is a surefire guide to implementing this fast,
flexible, and powerful templating system.

Additional Resources:

Chapter 2, "Building a Complete Website Using the Template Toolkit," is
available online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/chapter/index.html

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bios, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/

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Perl Template Toolkit
Darren Chamberlain, David Cross, and Andy Wardley
ISBN 0-596-00476-1, 574 pages, $39.95 US, $57.95 CA
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