Ok, I think I understand now... Let me see if I can make it clear, and please tell me if I am way off base or not... :o)

Ok, I have these fields currently in my DB:
name content
I should add one called "type".

Then when I call the variables I should do it in one big swipe:
get_page_content("some_type");

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Something like that, and it would then go load each value for that type?
Here is how I currently do it:
$default_font_family = get_page_content("default_font_family");

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Each variables '$default_font_family' is the same name in the db: 'default_font_family'.
So how could I do that, where it will take the "name" and make it a variable, without telling it like I do: 'name = sub('name');'
Could I do something like this in the subroutine: 
    my $type = shift;
    my $dbh = DB_File::connect();
    $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq{ SELECT name,content FROM page_vars WHERE
+ type = ? });
    $sth->execute($type);
    while ( my ($db_name,$db_content) = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {
        ${$db_name} = $db_content;
    }
    $sth->finish();
    return 1;

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Would that work? I don't think it would, but I have not tried it. Do you know off hand if it would work?

If not I suppose I could put them in a hash or array: 
    my $type = shift;
    my $dbh = DB_File::connect();
    $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq{ SELECT name,content FROM page_vars WHERE
+ type = ? });
    $sth->execute($type);
    my %vars;
    while (my ($db_name,$db_content) = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
        $vars{$db_name} = $db_content;
    }
    $sth->finish();
    return(%vars);

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Then I could just have each variable instead of being called by the name be called by a hash:
instead of doing: $default_font_family = ... do this: %vars = get_page_content("some_type");
Then %vars would contain all the variables so I could print them by doing:
$vars{default_font_family}
The only bad thing about using the hash, is that I have already done a lot of work, where I don't do that, so I'd have to put a whole lot of time into search and replace :o)

Anyways, did I understand it the way you meant it?

Thank you much, as usual!
Richard

In reply to Re: Another Opinion Request...(config file) by powerhouse
in thread Another Opinion Request...(config file) by powerhouse

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