Re: [Templates] Calling BLOCKS inside templates

> Guys,

Hi Buddy,

Why don't you just use: [% PROCESS my_template.tt2 %] to include your 
blocks into your pages?  Then just process them as normal like:
[% PROCESS bar %].  If you put only blocks in my_template.tt2 there 
should be no problem.

-- Josh

Buddy Burden wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Okay, I'm sure someone must have solved this before ...
> 
> I'm using several BLOCKs inside my various templates, and occasionally I 
> need to get the output of just a BLOCK (as opposed to the whole 
> template). Naturally, my solution was to expose the blocks via the 
> EXPOSE_BLOCKS config option (which, BTW, doesn't appear to be in the 
> online doco; I found it while perusing the badger book).
> 
> So this works well for most of my problems, but the problem arises when 
> I have something like:
> 
>     [%# my_template.tt2 %]
> 
>     [% BLOCK foo %]
>     some stuff
>     [% END %]
> 
>     [% BLOCK bar %]
>     [% PROCESS foo %]
>     other stuff
>     [% END %]
> 
> and then I try to process my_template.tt2/bar.  Now, obviously I can see 
> _why_ it doesn't work; makes perfect sense in fact.  What I want to know 
> is is there any way around it?  I looked briefly at the AUTO_RESET 
> config option, but it sorta frightened me: I got the feeling that was 
> one of those things you don't mess with unless you really know what 
> you're doing.
> 
> So does anyone have any suggestions?  I'm not particularly tied to 
> EXPOSE_BLOCKS, but I really want to avoid making each separate block its 
> own separate template; that would get messy, and it would confuse the 
> hell out of my HTML person (who is more of a layout designer than a 
> programmer).
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
>         -- Buddy
> 
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