Hi All I'm trying to write a small collection of CGI scripts for various functions. I'd like to be able to have a seperate file for some config data and subroutines that will be used globally.

I've created the file with DB connection info and some other basic stuff and am using "require ./config.pl" in each of the scripts. The problem is that variable declaration in config.pl aren't avaliable in the other scripts. So after connecteing to the DB using the subroutine in config.pl $dbh and $sth aren't exported. The variables in question are initalised outside the subroutines but are in config.pl.

Also passing variables from the running script into a subroutine in config.pl seems to be impossible too, although I suspect thats all related to a namespace type problem. My understanding was that require effectivly made the files into one long file but apparently not

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