Template::Plugin::Dumper - Plugin interface to Data::Dumper [% USE Dumper %] [% Dumper.dump(variable) %] [% Dumper.dump_html(variable) %] 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 the Data::Dumper manpage for further details. [% USE dumper(Indent=0, Pad="<br>") %] These options can also be specified in lower case. [% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="<br>") %] 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) %] Simon Matthews <sam@knowledgepool.com> 2.65, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.14, released on 04 October 2004. 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. Template::Plugin, Data::Dumper