[stringtemplate basics lesson is pretty good
thomashartman1@gmail.com**20080910141956] move ./templates/favoriteAnimal.st ./templates/leastFavoriteAnimal.st
hunk ./src/Controller.hs 31
-    tutorial ++ simpleHandlers ++ usingTemplatesHandlers ++ staticfiles 
+    tutorial ++ simpleHandlers ++ [ myFavoriteAnimal ] ++ staticfiles 
hunk ./src/ControllerBasic.hs 130
-usingTemplatesHandlers :: [ServerPartT IO Response]
-usingTemplatesHandlers = [
+myFavoriteAnimal :: ServerPartT IO Response
+myFavoriteAnimal = 
hunk ./src/ControllerBasic.hs 134
-           (liftIO $ return . toResponse . HtmlString
-                =<< do templates <- directoryGroup "templates"
-                       return $ renderTemplateGroup templates [("favoriteAnimal", "giraffe")] "my-favorite-animal" ) ]
-  ]
+            liftIO $ do templates <- directoryGroup "templates"
+                        return . toResponse . HtmlString . 
+                            renderTemplateGroup templates [("favoriteAnimal", "Tyrannasaurus Rex")
+                                                           , ("leastFavoriteAnimal","Bambi")]
+                                                    $ "my-favorite-animal" 
+        ]
+  
hunk ./templates/leastFavoriteAnimal.st 1
-Again, my favorite animal is a $ favoriteAnimal $. (set in another template, favoriteAnimal.st)
+
+
+<p>*********** My least favorite animal is $ leastFavoriteAnimal $. 
+
+<p>*********** (set in another template, leastFavoriteAnimal.st) 
+
+<p>*********** Notice that this template file uses CamelCase rather than dashes to separate words.
+   Otherwise there's an error with included templates.
+   So, in general: avoid template file names with dashes or underscores, and just use CamelCase for templates.
+
hunk ./templates/my-favorite-animal.st 2
-  This is written in the top container template of my homepage, myhomepage.st.
-  <p>
-  It is generated using HStringTemplate.
-  <p>
hunk ./templates/my-favorite-animal.st 4
-  $ favoriteAnimal() $ 
+  $ leastFavoriteAnimal() $
hunk ./templates/my-favorite-animal.st 8
-  <a href="moreFavoriteAnimals.html">More Favorite Animals</a>
-
hunk ./templates/my-favorite-animal.st 9
-
-
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 2
-<p>Follow the links below by clicking on them.
-Each "page" link is paired with one or more "code" or "template" links that you should also follow.
-Try to match what is happening in the page link with what went on behind the scenes in the code and template links.</p>
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 3
-<p><a href="/usingtemplates/my-favorite-animal">my favorite animal</a>
+<p>In the previous section we rendered a template in ghci using the following command
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 5
+<p>*Main Misc View Text.StringTemplate> do templates <- directoryGroup "templates" ; writeFile "output.html" ( renderTemplateGroup templates [] "templates-dont-repeat-yourself" ) 
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 7
+<p>Let's look more carefully at these functions.
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 9
-$!  without headers or table of contents or any variables set, !$
-
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Note:
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 22
+<p>Next, let's look at a slightly more involved example of StringTemplate usage than we've seen so far.
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 24
+<ul>
+  <li>The controller: myFavoriteAnimal, in <a href="/src/ControllerBasic.hs">src/ControllerBasic.hs</a>
+      <br>a snip: <br> &nbsp; renderTemplateGroup templates
+                  <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; [("favoriteAnimal", "Tyrannasaurus Rex")
+                                                           , ("leastFavoriteAnimal","Bambi")]
+                                                    \$ "my-favorite-animal" 
+  <li>The rendered page: <a href="/usingtemplates/my-favorite-animal">my favorite animal</a>
+  <li>The template: <a href="/templates/my-favorite-animal.st">templates/my-favorite-animal.st</a>
+  <li>An included template: <a href="/templates/leastFavoriteAnimal.st">leastFavoriteAnimal()</a>
+</ul>
hunk ./templates/stringtemplate-basics.st 35
+<p> Try to gain an understanding of the most important features in the StringTemplate system
+    by getting a sense of how the my-favorite-animal page got generated. </p>
+
+<p> When you're done doing that, you should have enough StringTemplate knowledge to shoot yourself in the foot :)
+
+<p> For a more in depth look at StringTemplate, see the following:
+
+<ul><li>blee
+    <li>bleh
+</ul>
hunk ./templates/templates-dont-repeat-yourself.st 33
-<br>*Main Misc View Text.StringTemplate> do templates <- directoryGroup "templates" ; writeFile "output.html" ( renderTemplateGroup templates [] "templates-dont-repeat-yourself" )
+<br>*Main Misc View Text.StringTemplate> do templates <- directoryGroup "templates" ; writeFile "output.html" \$ renderTemplateGroup templates [] "templates-dont-repeat-yourself" 
hunk ./templates/templates-dont-repeat-yourself.st 39
-<p>*Main Misc View Text.StringTemplate> do templates <- directoryGroup "templates" ; writeFile "output.html" ( renderTemplateGroup templates [("loggedInUser","DarthVader")] "templates-dont-repeat-yourself" )
+<p>*Main Misc View Text.StringTemplate> do templates <- directoryGroup "templates" ; writeFile "output.html" \$ renderTemplateGroup templates [("loggedInUser","DarthVader")] "templates-dont-repeat-yourself" 
hunk ./templates/templates-dont-repeat-yourself.st 47
-<p>You're missing the header image and css because you're opening a plain html file
+<p>If you reload output.htlm, you'll see you are missing the header image and css because you're opening a plain html file