what was the thing that bite's me most... is that every your page/script runs inside a sub() i.e. 
#mod_perl_handler
sub handler {

  sub your_sub() {}..
  ...your script....

}

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this means your subs runs as closures (this is very well explained into modperl docs)
One disadventage of running this way is that u should use 
our $myvar;

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instead of :
my $myvar;

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so that vars behave correctly inside your_sub() i.e. they become globals which is good for memory-conserving tehnique, but can be nasty if reused for other purposes by accident. In one email in the past I proposed to Stas Beckman, to use "goto"-variant instead of encompasing mod_perl_sub() so that this become non-issue.
Pseudo code (by memory), havent used mod_perl long time:
#mod_perl-handler
package  Blah;

sub handler {
 ....house keeping code...
 goto MYCODE
}

sub your_sub { .... }

MYCODE:
 ...your code here....

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In reply to Re: Learning mod_perl by bugsbunny
in thread Learning mod_perl by CodeJunkie

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