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<h1> <a name="Ctemplate_System"></a>Ctemplate System </h1>
<center><strong>Status: Current</strong> &nbsp;
<small>(as of 25 April 2008)</small></center>
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<p>Welcome to the C++ CTemplate system! (This project was originally
called Google Templates, due to its origin as the template system used
for Google search result pages, but now has a more general name
matching its community-owned nature.)</p>
<p>As a quick start, here's a small but complete program that uses this
template library. For more details see, the links below.</p>
<h3>Template file <code>example.tpl</code></h3>
<pre>
Hello {{NAME}},
You have just won ${{VALUE}}!
{{#IN_CA}}Well, ${{TAXED_VALUE}}, after taxes.{{/IN_CA}}
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<h3>C++ program <code>example.cc</code></h3>
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#include &lt;stdlib.h>
#include &lt;string>
#include &lt;iostream>
#include &lt;ctemplate/template.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
ctemplate::TemplateDictionary dict("example");
dict.SetValue("NAME", "John Smith");
int winnings = rand() % 100000;
dict.SetIntValue("VALUE", winnings);
dict.SetFormattedValue("TAXED_VALUE", "%.2f", winnings * 0.83);
// For now, assume everyone lives in CA.
// (Try running the program with a 0 here instead!)
if (1) {
dict.ShowSection("IN_CA");
}
std::string output;
ctemplate::ExpandTemplate("example.tpl", ctemplate::DO_NOT_STRIP, &dict, &output);
std::cout &lt;&lt; output;
return 0;
}
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<h3>Compiling and linking (using gcc)</h3>
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gcc -o example example.cc -lctemplate_nothreads
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<p>I can use the "nothreads" library because <code>example.cc</code>
doesn't use threads. If <code>example.cc</code> were threaded, I
would do something like this instead:</p>
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gcc -o example example.cc -lctemplate -pthread
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<p>See the README for more details about the two different ctemplate
libraries.</p>
<h2>In-depth Documentation</h2>
<ol>
<li> <A HREF="howto.html">Howto</A>: Introduction to the
Ctemplate system, and a tutorial for using it. </li>
<li> <A HREF="auto_escape.html">Auto Escape</A>: Guide to using
the optional Auto Escape mode to protect your web application
better against XSS.</li>
<li> <A HREF="tips.html">Tips</A>: Advice, tips, and recommendations
for best practices with templates, to make them easier to write
and maintain, and to avoid common template mistakes. </li>
<li> <A HREF="example.html">Examples</A>: Some example templates and
application code that uses them. These are taken from actual
Google applications. </li>
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<address>
Craig Silverstein<br>
Last modified: Mon Feb 22 10:59:03 PST 2010
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