Alex, GT staff,

1) Would be fine to be able to reuse DB connection in template tags.
I mean to be able to use $DB object in template tags. Even more would be useful to be able to use any object, like $DB, $CFG, $IN, $USER, etc.

Yes, I know they can be used in a global, but why to create a global for every small one-liner task?
This template parser improvement would help to avoid some short globals, by using object based function calls right in the template tags.

If $DB object would be possible to use, then we could do such function calling template tags:

Of course GT::Template parser would require modification to identify "$var->function()" style as function call.
I was thinking about the security risks, in the case we allow usage of object variables in the template tags, and I think there is not higher risk, than allowing using globals in templates.


2) Another suggestion could be to allow one-liner perl codes within the template tags such way:
Identification could be not a difficult task in the template parser.
Should be executed as Code if: {.+} and sub\s+{.+}

Let me know, what do you think about these suggestions.

Best regards,
Webmaster33

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