So I've written a set of scripts that creates a indexed mySQL-driven website with some basic document management features. I developed it with use strict; and it runs beautifully. I guess that's the first step to getting it to run correctly with mod_perl.

The thing I'm worrying about is in some areas, code is executed based on the ABSENCE of a variable- for instance, if deleteflag=yes is not "posted" to the script, the script doesn't execute a loop, it skips ahead.

I've undef'd the hash that stores the "posted" variables before the variables are parsed in my script as a precautionary measure. Is this enough to make sure my hash will be empty, and not cause problems down the line with my script looking for the absence of variables?

In reply to mod_perl- am I safe? by Hero Zzyzzx

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