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+#============================================================= -*-Perl-*-
+#
+# Template::Plugin::URL
+#
+# DESCRIPTION
+# Template Toolkit Plugin for constructing URL's from a base stem
+# and adaptable parameters.
+#
+# AUTHOR
+# Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>
+#
+# COPYRIGHT
+# Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+#
+#============================================================================
+
+package Template::Plugin::URL;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use base 'Template::Plugin';
+
+our $VERSION = 2.74;
+our $JOINT = '&';
+
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# new($context, $baseurl, \%url_params)
+#
+# Constructor method which returns a sub-routine closure for constructing
+# complex URL's from a base part and hash of additional parameters.
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub new {
+ my ($class, $context, $base, $args) = @_;
+ $args ||= { };
+
+ return sub {
+ my $newbase = shift unless ref $_[0] eq 'HASH';
+ my $newargs = shift || { };
+ my $combo = { %$args, %$newargs };
+ my $urlargs = join($JOINT,
+ map { args($_, $combo->{ $_ }) }
+ grep { defined $combo->{ $_ } && length $combo->{ $_ } }
+ sort keys %$combo);
+
+ my $query = $newbase || $base || '';
+ $query .= '?' if length $query && length $urlargs;
+ $query .= $urlargs if length $urlargs;
+
+ return $query
+ }
+}
+
+
+sub args {
+ my ($key, $val) = @_;
+ $key = escape($key);
+
+ return map {
+ "$key=" . escape($_);
+ } ref $val eq 'ARRAY' ? @$val : $val;
+
+}
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# escape($url)
+#
+# URL-encode data. Borrowed with minor modifications from CGI.pm.
+# Kudos to Lincold Stein.
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub escape {
+ my $toencode = shift;
+ return undef unless defined($toencode);
+ $toencode=~s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.-])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))/eg;
+ return $toencode;
+}
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Template::Plugin::URL - Plugin to construct complex URLs
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ [% USE url('/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]
+
+ [% url(debug = 1, id = 123) %]
+ # ==> /cgi/bin/foo.pl?debug=1&id=123
+
+ [% USE mycgi = url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]
+
+ [% mycgi %]
+ # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&debug=1
+
+ [% mycgi(mode='submit') %]
+ # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&debug=1
+
+ [% mycgi(debug='d2 p0', id='D4-2k[4]') %]
+ # ==> /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&debug=d2%20p0&id=D4-2k%5B4%5D
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+The C<URL> plugin can be used to construct complex URLs from a base stem
+and a hash array of additional query parameters.
+
+The constructor should be passed a base URL and optionally, a hash array
+reference of default parameters and values. Used from with a template,
+it would look something like the following:
+
+ [% USE url('http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]
+ [% USE url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse') %]
+ [% USE url('/cgi-bin/baz.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]
+
+When the plugin is then called without any arguments, the default base
+and parameters are returned as a formatted query string.
+
+ [% url %]
+
+For the above three examples, these will produce the following outputs:
+
+ http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl
+ /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse
+ /cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1
+
+Note that additional parameters are separated by 'C<&>' rather than
+simply 'C<&>'. This is the correct behaviour for HTML pages but is,
+unfortunately, incorrect when creating URLs that do not need to be
+encoded safely for HTML. This is likely to be corrected in a future
+version of the plugin (most probably with TT3). In the mean time, you
+can set C<$Template::Plugin::URL::JOINT> to C<&> to get the correct
+behaviour.
+
+Additional parameters may be also be specified to the URL:
+
+ [% url(mode='submit', id='wiz') %]
+
+Which, for the same three examples, produces:
+
+ http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl?mode=submit&id=wiz
+ /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&id=wiz
+ /cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1&id=wiz
+
+A new base URL may also be specified as the first option:
+
+ [% url('/cgi-bin/waz.pl', test=1) %]
+
+producing
+
+ /cgi-bin/waz.pl?test=1
+ /cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&test=1
+ /cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&debug=1&test=1
+
+The ordering of the parameters is non-deterministic due to fact that
+Perl's hashes themselves are unordered. This isn't a problem as the
+ordering of CGI parameters is insignificant (to the best of my knowledge).
+All values will be properly escaped thanks to some code borrowed from
+Lincoln Stein's C<CGI> module. e.g.
+
+ [% USE url('/cgi-bin/woz.pl') %]
+ [% url(name="Elrich von Benjy d'Weiro") %]
+
+Here the spaces and "C<'>" character are escaped in the output:
+
+ /cgi-bin/woz.pl?name=Elrich%20von%20Benjy%20d%27Weiro
+
+An alternate name may be provided for the plugin at construction time
+as per regular Template Toolkit syntax.
+
+ [% USE mycgi = url('cgi-bin/min.pl') %]
+ [% mycgi(debug=1) %]
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Andy Wardley E<lt>abw@wardley.orgE<gt> L<http://wardley.org/>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
+
+This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<Template::Plugin>
+
+=cut
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: perl
+# perl-indent-level: 4
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# End:
+#
+# vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4: