NAME

Template::Constants - Defines constants for the Template Toolkit

SYNOPSIS

use Template::Constants qw( :template :status :error :ops
                            :cache :debug :all );

DESCRIPTION

The Template::Constants modules defines, and optionally exports into the caller's namespace, a number of constants used by the Template package.

Constants may be used by specifying the Template::Constants package explicitly:

    use Template;
    use Template::Constants;

    my $template = Template->new({ 
	DEBUG => Template::Constants::DEBUG_ALL 
    });

Constants may be imported into the caller's namespace by naming them as options to the use Template::Constants statement:

use Template::Constants qw( DEBUG_ALL );

Alternatively, one of the following tagset identifiers may be specified (prefixed by ':') to import sets of constants; reset, notify, expand, debug.

    use Template;
    use Template::Constants qw( :debug );

    my $template = Template->new({ 
	DEBUG => DEBUG_ALL 
    });

The Template module uses the Template::Constants module and delegates any import specifications to it. Thus, it is sufficient to use Template without requiring a further use Template::Constants.

    use Template qw( :error :debug );

    my $template = Template->new({ 
	DEBUG => DEBUG_ALL 
    });

See Exporter for more information on exporting variables.

EXPORTABLE TAG SETS

The following tag sets and associated constants are defined:

:template    General purpose Template control parameters.
  TEMPLATE_OUTPUT           # indicates output "stream"
  TEMPLATE_ERROR            # indicates error "stream"

:status      Status codes, returned by toolkit and user code
  STATUS_OK                 # no problem, continue
  STATUS_RETURN             # ended current block then continue (ok)
  STATUS_STOP               # controlled stop (ok) 
  STATUS_DONE               # iterator is all done (ok)
  STATUS_ERROR              # general error condition (not ok)

:error       Error (exception) types thrown by toolkit
  ERROR_FILE                # file missing or parse error
  ERROR_UNDEF               # undefined variables

:ops         Fundamental 'opcodes' of context runtime.
  (see Context::_runop() for details)

:all         All the above constants.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@cre.canon.co.uk>

REVISION

$Revision: 1.11 $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996-1999 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Template, Exporter