Template::TAL::Provider - Base class for TAL template providers

  my $provider = $provider_class->new;
  my $ttt = $provider_class->get_template("foo");

TAL Templates come from Providers. You ask an instance of a provider for a template with a specific name, and it should return a Template::TAL::Template object to you for that template.

This module is the base class of all providers - it should be subclassed by developers who wish to write their own provider - for instance, to serve templates from a database.

The only method you need to implement is get_template, which must return either a Template::TAL::Template object, or undef. If you want to do any module initialisation, override new(). See Template::TAL::Provider::Disk for the simple provider that ships with Template::TAL.

new()

creates a new provider

get_template( template name )

Should return a Template::TAL::Template object with the given name, or die if there is no such template.

Written by Tom Insam, Copyright 2005 Fotango Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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

None known. Please see Template::TAL for details of how to report bugs.

Template::TAL, Template::TAL::Provider::Disk