[Templates] Extending Template::Provider

[Jess Robinson]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Dominic Malolepszy wrote:

> Ended up figuring this out. I just had to pass a INCLUDE_PATH to the default 
> provider I was creating. Anyway, now that I'm using my own instantiated 
> providers, when the files do not exist no errors are thrown to the screen 
> that it cannot find the files. Is theres something that I need to pass to 
> enable it. Because if you do not create your own Provider object and let 
> Template create its own, than if you try to load non-existant templates than 
> the appropriate error is displayed. However when you try to manually load 
> Template::Provider this does not happen, strange. I might be missing 
> something :(
>
> Anyway I got it so that templates are loaded from a database and it appears 
> to work :). At the moment the module I have is pretty primitive, but I will 
> share it here if anyone is interested, its not overly complicated.
>

Gah, I need to get my Template::Provider::DBI checked in, Andy, where are 
those svn commit bits??

I've already made one of these, which was waiting for 2.15 to go out, and 
now it's umm.. waiting for me to stop being lazy..

You need to pass your ->new() the entire config.

http://desert-island.dynodns.net:8888/perldists/Template-Provider-DBI-0.01.tar.gz

Jess