## Read the current vote number from the mySQL database.
	my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database","$username","$password") || error_fatal ("[ vote.cgi: Admin: Unable to open mySQL database - $! ]");
	my $sth_1 = $dbh->prepare("SELECT current_vote FROM vote_count;");
	   $sth_1->execute();
	my @vote_no = $sth_1->fetchrow_array();
	my $current_vote = $vote_no[0];

##</code><code>##

	sub return_variables
		{
		my $server_root = "/var/www/";

		## MySQL database configuration.
		my $database = "mercury:localhost";
		my $username = "mercurus";
		my $password = "mercurus";

		my @variables = ("$server_root","$db_database","$db_username","$db_password");
		return @variables;
		}