Template::Plugin::Dumper(3)

NAME
Template::Plugin::Dumper - Plugin interface to Data::Dumper

SYNOPSIS
    [% USE Dumper %]

    [% Dumper.dump(variable) %]
    [% Dumper.dump_html(variable) %]

DESCRIPTION
This is a very simple Template Toolkit Plugin Interface to the Data::Dumper module. A "Dumper" object will be instantiated via the following directive:

    [% USE Dumper %]

As a standard plugin, you can also specify its name in lower case:

    [% USE dumper %]

The following Data::Dumper options are supported as constructor arguments to affect the output generated:

"Indent", "Pad", "Varname", "Purity", "Useqq", "Terse", "Freezer", "Toaster", "Deepcopy", "Quotekeys", "Bless", "Maxdepth", "Sortkeys".

See Data::Dumper for further details on each option.

    [% USE dumper(Indent=0, Pad="<br>") %]
    [% USE dumper(Sortkeys=1, Terse=1) %]

These options can also be specified in lower case.

    [% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="<br>") %]

METHODS
There are two methods supported by the "Dumper" object. Each will output into the template the contents of the variables passed to the object method.

  dump()
Generates a raw text dump of the data structure(s) passed

    [% USE Dumper %]
    [% Dumper.dump(myvar) %]
    [% Dumper.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]

  dump_html()
Generates a dump of the data structures, as per dump(), but with the characters <, > and & converted to their equivalent HTML entities and newlines converted to <br>.

    [% USE Dumper %]
    [% Dumper.dump_html(myvar) %]

AUTHOR
Simon Matthews <sam@tt2.org>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000 Simon Matthews. All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin, Data::Dumper