Re^4: Require or Do vs. more maintenance

*acts like a sponge and absorbs everything*

Alright, thx! Been trying to get it to work, without luck though.

test.cgi

#!c:/apache/perl/bin/perl.exe

BEGIN {
    $| = 1;
    open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT");
    print qq~Content-type: text/html\n\n~;
}

use CGI;
use strict;
use lib qw( c:/apache/cgi-bin/lib );
use MyAppCommon;  # use is basically like require... see the docs for 


my $foo = new CGI;

print $foo->header;

MyAppCommon::top();

print "Test content (should be in middle)<br><br><br><br>\n";

MyAppCommon::bottom();
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MyAppCommon.pl (.pl a necessary extension? or can it be .cgi?)

use strict;

sub top {
    print "Top stuff<br><br>";
}

sub test {
    print "Bottom stuff<br><br>";
}

1;
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Assuming the code above, where am I suppose to save MyAppCommon.pl? Does it need to be compiled somehow? I know I could put it in the bin on my test environment, but I want to mimic my website's environment as best possible, so would like to have it in a subdirectory of my cgi-bin.

Thx again for all the help, time, and patience! I'm learning a ton tonight :-)

Stenyj

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Re^5: Require or Do vs. more maintenance by etcshadow (Priest) on Jun 26, 2004 at 22:45 UTC
Ah, sorry I wasn't specific. Perl module files should be saved with a ".pm" extension, and they should be saved in the library path (really, in a library path, as there may be multiple... when you `require` or `use` a module, all the library paths in @INC are searched for that file). Also, module-names map to file-names in the following manner: two colons ("::") are used to separate files from directories or directories from sub-directories (regardless of what is actually used for this purpose on your operating system: backslash for windows, slash for nix, colon for mac classic, etc). So, `require My::New::Library;` is equivalent to `require "$lib_path/My/New/Library.pm";` on nix, or to `require "$lib_path\\My\\New\\Library.pm";` on dos/windows, etc. Again, though, I'm just parroting back documentation to you (not that I mind). You can see this stuff for yourself in `perldoc perlmod`. (I think before I mentioned perlmodlib, but I should have checked that first... I actually had it mixed up with perlmod, which is more useful info for what you're trying to get a handle on... sorry). `------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Require or Do vs. more maintenance by fglock (Vicar) on Jun 26, 2004 at 22:42 UTC
`use lib qw( c:/apache/cgi-bin/lib );` You are telling Perl to look for "MyAppCommon" into "c:/apache/cgi-bin/lib". MyAppCommon.pl (.pl a necessary extension? or can it be .cgi?) Modules use the ".pm" extension.	[reply] [d/l]