MicroMason::ServerPages(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      MicroMason::ServerPages(3pm)

NAME

       Text::MicroMason::ServerPages - Alternate Syntax like ASP/JSP Templates

SYNOPSIS

       Instead of using this class directly, pass its name to be mixed in:

	   use Text::MicroMason;
	   my $mason = Text::MicroMason::Base->new( -ServerPages );

       Use the standard compile and execute methods to parse and evalute templates:

	 print $mason->compile( text=>$template )->( @%args );
	 print $mason->execute( text=>$template, @args );

       Server Pages syntax provides another way to mix Perl into a text template:

	   <% my $name = $ARGS{name};
	     if ( $name eq 'Dave' ) {  %>
	     I'm sorry <%= $name %>, I'm afraid I can't do that right now.
	   <% } else {
	       my $hour = (localtime)[2];
	       my $daypart = ( $hour > 11 ) ? 'afternoon' : 'morning';
	     %>
	     Good <%= $daypart %>, <%= $name %>!
	   <% } %>

DESCRIPTION

       This subclass replaces MicroMason's normal lexer with one that supports a syntax similar to Active Server Pages and Java Server Pages.

   Compatibility with Apache::ASP
       Apache::ASP is a full-featured application server toolkit with many fatures, of which only the templating functionality is emulated.

       This is not a drop-in replacement for Apache::ASP, as the implementation is quite different, but it should be able to process some existing
       templates without major changes.

       The following features of EmbPerl syntax are supported:

       o   Angle-bracket markup tags

       The following syntax features of are not supported:

       o   Dynamic XML/XSL processing.

       o   Web server objects such as $Session, $Request, $Response, and $Application.

       o   Application events such as Application_OnStart, Script_OnStart, and other gloga.asa features.

   Template Syntax
       The following elements are recognized by the ServerPages lexer:

       o   <% perl statements %>

	   Arbitrary Perl code to be executed at this point in the template.

       o   <%= perl expression %>

	   A Perl expression to be evaluated and included in the output.

       o   <%& file, arguments %>

	   Includes an external template file.

       o   <%-- comment --%>

	   Documentation or inactive code to be skipped over silently. Can also be used to quickly comment out part of a template.

       o   <%name> ... </%name>

	   Supported block names are: 'perl', 'args', 'once', 'init', 'cleanup', and 'doc'.

   Private Methods
       lex_token
	     ( $type, $value ) = $mason->lex_token();

	   Lexer for <% ... %> tags.

	   Attempts to parse a token from the template text stored in the global $_ and returns a token type and value. Returns an empty list if
	   unable to parse further due to an error.

SEE ALSO

       For an overview of this templating framework, see Text::MicroMason.

       This is a mixin class intended for use with Text::MicroMason::Base.

       For distribution, installation, support, copyright and license information, see Text::MicroMason::Docs::ReadMe.

perl v5.10.1							    2007-01-29					      MicroMason::ServerPages(3pm)