perldoc > Template::Plugin::Procedural

NAME
    Template::Plugin::Procedural - Base class for procedural plugins

SYNOPSIS
        package Template::Plugin::LWPSimple;
        use base qw(Template::Plugin::Procedural);
        use LWP::Simple;  # exports 'get'
        1;

        [% USE LWPSimple %]
        [% LWPSimple.get("http://www.tt2.org/") %]

DESCRIPTION
    "Template::Plugin::Procedural" is a base class for Template Toolkit plugins that causes defined
    subroutines to be called directly rather than as a method. Essentially this means that
    subroutines will not receive the class name or object as its first argument.

    This is most useful when creating plugins for modules that normally work by exporting
    subroutines that do not expect such additional arguments.

    Despite the fact that subroutines will not be called in an OO manner, inheritance still function
    as normal. A class that uses "Template::Plugin::Procedural" can be subclassed and both
    subroutines defined in the subclass and subroutines defined in the original class will be
    available to the Template Toolkit and will be called without the class/object argument.

AUTHOR
    Mark Fowler <mark AT twoshortplanks.com> <http://www.twoshortplanks.com>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2002 Mark Fowler <mark AT twoshortplanks.com>

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

SEE ALSO
    Template, Template::Plugin