Hello all:

I'm working on an application which has outgrown its previous configuration arrangement. I'm now getting the following error, on the following line, which is calling the subroutine reproduced below.

How can I make this error go away and this script give me my database connection from the new configuration scheme? Why does it wait till the db_name to choke, while allowing the db_host_name to pass through without complaint?

-- Hugh

Software error:

Can't use string ("databasename ") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bc/supporters.cgi line 265.

(Yes, I see that I still need to strip that trailing space. That is a different issue, I think).

line 265 reads:

my $dbh = vol::connect_new($config{'db'}{qw(db_host_name db_name db_us
+er db_pw)});

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that subroutine reads:

sub connect_new {
   my($host,$db,$user,$pw) = @_;
#   my $host = "$config{'db'}{'db_host_name'}";
#   my $db = "$config{'db'}{'db_name'}";
#   my $user = "$config{'db'}{'db_user'}";
#   my $pw = "$config{'db'}{'db_pw'}";
   my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:host=$host;database=$db";
   return (DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$pw,
      {PrintError => 0, RaiseError => 1}));
}

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In reply to Can't use string ("") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" by hesco

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