hello, i just tried to use such a persistent db-connection, but it won't work... when i load the script, it calls the Database-module which opens the db-connection , this works fine... but when i reload the page, or call it with different params, the module first closes the db-connection, then some server-info is printed and after that it reopens the db-conection and prints the rest...
here's my code:

file Database.pm:
=============
package Database;

use strict;
use warnings;
# with or without use Apache::DBI; the result is the same
# i also load Apache::DBI in the startup.pl file...
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

our (@EXPORT, $dbh);

use base qw/Exporter/;
@EXPORT = qw($dbh);

#BEGIN {
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "\nopening db connection!\n";
$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:dbname', 'user', 'pwd');
#}

END {
   $dbh->disconnect;
   print "\nshutting down db-conn!\n"; #should not happen...
}

1;

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file index.cgi:
==========
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

use Database;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $q = new CGI;
my %params = $q->Vars;

my $userid = delete $params{USER};

my $user = $dbh->selectrow_array("select NAME from USER where ID=?", u
+ndef, $userid);

print "name of the user: $user!";

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and here you can see what's happening:
http://www.detonation.org/cgi-perl/comexos/index.cgi?USER=6

hm, has anyone an idea?
thx for help ...

Edited: ~Tue Jan 14 20:13:10 2003 (GMT) by footpad: Retitled and moved to SOPW, per Consideration

In reply to Help with Persistent Database Connections by comexos

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