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You can go this far, but no further... (Score:2)
So, how much is too much? Well, this much: a templating system may embed values of variables, apply filters to them (for example HTML escaping), provide simple conditionals, include other templates. And that's about it.
A templating system should not provide ways to connect to a database or to invoke SQL. Your controlling program should already have taken care of that.
The way I would allow directly fetching data from a database from within a template is by using a tie like mechanism: you treat it like a variable, and the fact that under the hood it fetches the value from a database is not really relevant.
Ain't it nice you can do all that just using plain Perl.
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That would have fixed PHP, back in the day.
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