2009/7/28 Galen Charlton <galen.charlton@liblime.com>:
Hi Colin,
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Colin Campbell<colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
I've been looking at C4/Letters.pm as the templating fails to generate useful output for claimissues. I can certainly get it to work with some code changes but I started wondering if a better use of long term effort might be to replace the home grown templating with a tried and tested perl module. It could use Template Toolkit for instance without changing the user interface, but resulting in more maintainable code. Thought I'd float that suggestion for comments.
I think switching Template Toolkit would be an excellent choice for the messaging system - the template syntax is simple and clean, and (rather importantly) I can envision writing an upgrade path for the current templates to TT versions of them.
I agree, I think that we may end switching all our templates to TT eventually, starting with the ones that are homegrown seems the perfect place. I did start on converting one template to use TT and started a module that may be some use http://git.workbuffer.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha.git;a=tree;f=lib/Koha;hb... Feel free to use anything from there that is useful Chris