Template::Multilingual(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Template::Multilingual(3pm)

NAME

       Template::Multilingual - Multilingual templates for Template Toolkit

SYNOPSIS

       This subclass of Template Toolkit's "Template" class supports multilingual templates: templates that contain text in several languages.

	   <t>
	     <en>Hello!</en>
	     <fr>Bonjour !</fr>
	   </t>

       Specify the language to use when processing a template:

	   use Template::Multilingual;

	   my $template = Template::Multilingual->new();
	   $template->language('en');
	   $template->process('example.ttml');

       You can also provide the name of the template variable that will hold the language:

	   my $template = Template::Multilingual->new(LANGUAGE_VAR => 'foo');
	   $template->process('example.ttml', { foo => 'en' });

METHODS

   new(\%params)
       The new() constructor creates and returns a reference to a new template object. A reference to a hash may be supplied as a parameter to
       provide configuration values.

       Configuration values are all valid "Template" superclass options, and one specific to this class:

       LANGUAGE_VAR
	   The LANGUAGE_VAR option can be used to set the name of the template variable which contains the current language.

	     my $parser = Template::Multilingual->new({
		LANGUAGE_VAR => 'global.language',
	     });

	   If this option is set, your code is responsible for setting the variable's value to the current language when processing the template.
	   Calling "language()" will have no effect.

	   If this option is not set, it defaults to language.

   language($lcode)
       Specify the language to be used when processing the template. Any string that matches "w+" is fine, but we suggest sticking to ISO-639
       which provides 2-letter codes for common languages and 3-letter codes for many others.

   process
       Used exactly as the original Template Toolkit "process" method.	Be sure to call "language" before calling "process".

LANGUAGE SUBTAG HANDLING

       This module supports language subtags to express variants, e.g. "en_US" or "en-US".  Here are the rules used for language matching:

       o   Exact match: the current language is found in the template

	     language	 template			       output
	     fr 	 <fr>foo</fr><fr_CA>bar</fr_CA>        foo
	     fr_CA	 <fr>foo</fr><fr_CA>bar</fr_CA>        bar

       o   Fallback to the primary language

	     language	 template			       output
	     fr_CA	 <fr>foo</fr><fr_BE>bar</fr_BE>        foo

       o   Fallback to first (in alphabetical order) other variant of the primary language

	     language	 template			       output
	     fr 	 <fr_FR>foo</fr_FR><fr_BE>bar</fr_BE>  bar
	     fr_CA	 <fr_FR>foo</fr_FR><fr_BE>bar</fr_BE>  bar

AUTHOR

       Eric Cholet, "<cholet@logilune.com>"

BUGS

       Multilingual text sections cannot be used inside TT directives.	The following is illegal and will trigger a TT syntax error:

	   [% title = "<t><fr>Bonjour</fr><en>Hello</en></t>" %]

       Use this instead:

	   [% title = BLOCK %]<t><fr>Bonjour</fr><en>Hello</en></t>[% END %]

       The TAG_STYLE, START_TAG and END_TAG directives are supported, but the TAGS directive is not.

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-template-multilingual@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Template-Multilingual>.	I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of
       progress on your bug as I make changes.

SEE ALSO

       If you are already using your own "Template" subclass, you may find it easier to use Template::Multilingual::Parser instead.

       ISO 639-2 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2009 Eric Cholet, All Rights Reserved.

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

perl v5.10.0							    2009-01-18					       Template::Multilingual(3pm)