template toolkit question -- metadata

madison.sacd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I am trying to show different title in template.

In my controller list.pm, I assign a type variable to the template.

$c->stash->{type} = 'B';
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In the template, according to the type, the metadata "title" will be assigned different value, "Book" or "CD". My problem is that I got correct debug output for each condition. However, "CD" will always be assigned to the metadata "title". In other words, when I pass type 'B' to template, the debug output shows "!!!!!!!!!!", which is correct, but the title displays "CD". Anything wrong with my code?

[% IF type == 'B';
     META title = 'Book';
     debug("!!!!!!!!!!");
     debug(type);
   ELSE;
     debug("@@@@@@@@@@");
     debug(type);
     META title = 'CD';
   END;
-%]
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Re: template toolkit question -- metadata by Tomte (Priest) on May 11, 2007 at 08:27 UTC
The TT2 documentation says: The META directive allows simple metadata items to be defined within a template. These are evaluated when the template is parsed That means that the last value assigned to a META item will 'win', so to speak, as the conditional can't be and isn't evaluated during parse-time - change the order of the conditional, and the title should always display "BOOK". Edit: I experimented a bit with the following template `[% SET type = "D" %] [% IF type == 'B'; META title = 'Book'; ELSIF type == 'D'; META title = 'DVD'; ELSE; META title = 'CD'; END; -%] - [% template.title %] / [% type %] / [% template.name %] / [% templa +te.modtime %] - [% META title = 'LAST' %]` [download] and `ttree` to test my hypothesis, and I seem to interpret the documentation correctly: `- LAST / D / test.tt2 / 1178881986 -` [download] regards, tomte An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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