> > fom M::Manual::View--
> > Locating Templates
> > . . .
> > . . . This is where the
> > third directory comes in. The other directory, which May
> > pole checks very first of all, is specific to the table
> > that you're viewing. So if you go to
> > "http://your.shop.com/basket/list", Maypole will look in
> > the basket directory first for a file called list, and
> > second in the custom directory for a site-wide list tem
> > plate, and then fall-back to the factory directory for a
> > generic list template.
> >
> > The example in its simplicity is misleading as under default class dbi a
> table
> > like "note_card" will have a moniker like "notecard" and thus the directory
> > "notecard" will be searched.
>
> I'm not sure it's misleading, but it is ambiguous.
>
Misleading in this case:
package Football;
use base Class::DBI;
Football->table('fairy');
#Football->moniker is "football" which doesn't 'fairy'.
> > I'm not sure why moniker was used instead of table name. HOwever moniker
> is
> > overrideable so if you decide to change it, you'd need to change names of
> your
> > template directories.
>
> If we document the fact that the view uses the model's moniker for
> template paths then that would be expected behaviour.
>
> What are you overriding moniker() to? Or to put it another way, why is
> your overriden moniker() unsuitable for a template path?
>
Not sure yet :). Ideally i'd want to override it for use in templates the same
way column_names is used. So it could have any characters in it (especially
spaces.)
> Apart from the other reason(s) given for using moniker() over table(),
> it helps to decouple the view from the model.
> maypole model class at the moment which doesn't have tables.
>
That's the only decent argument i've heard for it yet. However, I think the
safest way is to have a model method dedicated soley to mapping to template
directories.
sub template_dir { return shift->moniker; }
That's database and moniker independent if you want
> --simonflk
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