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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your feedback Denny, Ben and Stuart – good food for thought!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think some sort of handling logic in Root’s default action to test for the existence of template and error or 404 if it doesn’t – is the way forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anthony<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Stuart Watt [mailto:swatt@infobal.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 11 October 2010 19:35<br><b>To:</b> The elegant MVC web framework<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Catalyst] Displaying template files without adding new controller actions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it's a TT file you need (i.e., not static), along with appropriate processing, you can make a variation on Ben's suggestion by using the $c->request->arguments, and putting the file name into $c->stash->{template} before handing off to the TT view, which is likely to be the default. This is a slight variation on ben's suggestion, which will only hit the file system when looking at the right part of the URI space. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've not tested this, but it'd just look something like:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>sub dynamic : Local {<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> my ($self, $c) = @_;<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> my $args = $c->request->arguments();<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> $c->stash->{template} = join('/', @$args);<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>};<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This omits the error handling (assumes TT will take care of that) but should only handle requests that begin /dynamic. The arguments() method returns additional stuff after "/dynamic" in the requesting URL. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I do something similar in my code (it's not precisely the same, as I retrieve the file contents through a model) and it works pretty well for us. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For security, you probably want to remove stuff like "..", just to be safe. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the best<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Stuart<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2010-10-11, at 11:14 AM, Ben van Staveren wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>The other way to do it (and this is hackish), would be something like this:<br><br>...<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is, however, very non-optimal since you are hitting the filesystem for every request that wasn't satisfied by an existing action. Like I said, you can either let the webserver serve up static pages. If you are worried about how the URL looks in the browser, some mod_rewrite magic will fix that for you, but that's a subject for another list :)<br><br>...<br><br>Anthony Gladdish wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I want to add quite a few .tt2 pages to the app, in various directories.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I don't want to have to create a Controller action per added template page ( this is the only way I know of adding a web page to a Catalyst app ).<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Every time I add a new page I'll have to add a new action to represent that page then restart the server. There must be a way to add as many template pages as required, and have a single Controller action display the web page if it's corresponding template exists, otherwise 404.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>...<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- <br>Ben van Staveren<br>phone: +62 81 70777529<br>email: <a href="mailto:benvanstaveren@gmail.com">benvanstaveren@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>