I'm planning on writing a number of scripts with mod_perl (which I am new at) that will pull various shared functions from a master function file.

now, my worry is, since these functions are in a different file, they won't 'cache' properly - some other user will call the script, and it'll have a different script's values, etc.

Up until now, I've just been keeping everything in my mod_perl scripts in one file (copy all functions bodily into each .pl file), but that is getting out of hand - I don't want to have to update every file when a function needs to be tweaked. I've found no tutorials or 'simple answers' to this issue.

Does anyone have any tutorials, or even extremely simple sample code bits ("this is the Autoloader common functions file, with one sample commonly used function. This is the script file, and here it is, using and pulling the common function"), that I could take a look at? I know it is a big thing to ask for what is probably a stupid question, but I can't even find an answer in my mod_perl books..

Thank you so much in advance if you can help!

In reply to Mod_Perl and Autoloader - anything special I should know? by MashMashy

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