[Templates] Calling BLOCKS inside templates

01:14 on 05 Mar 2005

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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