Template::Plugin::Dumper(3)                User Contributed Perl Documentation


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 "Data::Dumper" "Pad", "Indent" and "Varname" options are supported
       as constructor arguments to affect the output generated.  See
       Data::Dumper for further details.

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

       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

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-25       Template::Plugin::Dumper(3)