Fellow Monks,

I'm currently converting a templating system that has HTML mixed up with Perl code (yuck!) with HTML::Template.

I'm currently doing this in a few steps:

1) Convert my code in HTML::Template code inline

2) Moving this inline code into a separate file in a separate directory

#1 Was nothing. Cake. All done.

#2 is more difficult, as I don't want to have another Config variable need to be set for my program.

My idea for a solution to this problem was to store the templates in a directory below where my module is, for example, if the module is at:

myprogram/lib/Stuff/MyTemplate.pm

I wanted the templates to be at:

myprogram/lib/Stuff/templates

(at the moment, I don't want the templates servicable, only outside of my program's Perl code)

My idea for a solution to this problem was to find the absolute path of where the Templating functions are (in this case, they're in a separate module, not a part of the *.cgi file)

The problem with this route is that I can't for the life of me, figure out how to find the absolute path to my module; __FILE__ only stores something like,

lib/Stuff/MyTemplate.pm,

not

/home/me/lib/stuff/MyTemplate.pm

This: 

use File::Spec;
print File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__);

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Gives the same thing.

So, is there a way to find the absolute path to a module, from the module's, perspective (not from the perspective of the perl script which will use()/require() it)?

 

-justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to finding the absolute path to a module, from the module's, perspective by skazat

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