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NAME

Template::Constants - defines constants for the Template Toolkit

SYNOPSIS

    use Template::Constants qw( :status :error :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::Constants;

    print Template::Constants::STATUS_DECLINED;

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

    use Template::Constants qw( STATUS_DECLINED );

    print STATUS_DECLINED;

Alternatively, one of the following tagset identifiers may be specified to import sets of constants; :status, :error, :all.

    use Template::Constants qw( :status );

    print STATUS_DECLINED;

See Exporter for more information on exporting variables.

EXPORTABLE TAG SETS

The following tag sets and associated constants are defined:

  :status
    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_DECLINED           # provider declined to service request (ok)
    STATUS_ERROR              # general error condition (not ok)

  :error
    ERROR_RETURN              # return a status code (e.g. 'stop'
    ERROR_FILE                # file error: I/O, parse, recursion
    ERROR_UNDEF               # undefined variable value used
    ERROR_PERL                # error in [% PERL %] block

  :all         All the above constants.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>

    http://www.template-toolkit.org/
    http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

REVISION

$Revision: 1.1 $

COPYRIGHT

    Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
    Copyright (C) 1998-2000 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