so i'm delving further into my mod_perl experience. i got my baseline handler working, and form reading the docs, if methods are prototyped properly ($$), then they're invoked as object methods. all fine and good. but the question is *when* does the contructor get called?

i have the following code that gives me this error: 


[Fri Jul 25 00:58:42 2003] [error] Can't locate object method "server"
+ via package "My::Greeting" at /webcontent/server_home/test/My/Greeti
+ng.pm line 24.

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and here's the handler that accompanies it: 
package My::Greeting;

use strict;
use vars qw( $DBH );
use Apache::Constants qw(OK);
use Data::Dumper;

sub new($$) {

    my ( $class , %args ) = @_;

    ## stash a DBH in the object ... 
    $DBH = $args{DBH} || DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:rentsavers", "root",
+ "", ) ;

    my $self = bless { _DBH => $DBH }, $class;

    return $self;
    }

sub handler($$) {
      my ( $r, $class ) = @_;
      my $now = scalar localtime;
      my $server_name = $r->server->server_hostname;
      $r->send_http_header('text/plain');
      print <<EOT;
  Thanks for visiting $server_name.
  The local time is $now.
EOT

  print Dumper( $class );
  return OK;
  }

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i understand the error, and know i could fix it by using @ISA ... even if that's not the *right* way to fix it. what's the best way of going about this?

In reply to mod_perl and objects by geektron

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