For what it is worth, I highly recommend this book. I just bought it this past saturday, and I love it. It is written as if it was designed to a student/instructer. (Props to Randal, and Tom)
Kristofer --- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, Aug 25, 2003, at 09:30 US/Pacific, Jattie van der Linde > wrote: > [..] > > How can I call a function from my main script file located > > in a seperate file i.e. for instance a reusable piece of code > > that will generate the index of my site without having to copy > > the code to every singe page that I generate? > [..] > > The moment that you say, > > Well I have these functions/methods that I want > to make common to more than one piece of perl > > you want to run down and Pick Up a Copy of > > learning perl Objects, References & Modules: > <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/> > > since you are in need of feeling at home with > how to make a perl module, and how to use them. > > { wiggins has already covered the stock perldoc sequence, > but I want to stress that for 'normal people' from 'mostly > sane backgrounds' it would be best to start with the learning > book, before falling in amongst 'the diseased'.... You were warned. } > > My own Personal Ranting on Perl Modules is up at: > > <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/PM/> > > So while I am a RELIGIOUS FANATIC about 'h2xs' - as > a way to start a new module cleanly - cf: > > <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/Proj/PID/> > > as a case study in how to spin up modules. There is > the minor issue with how to 'contain them' in a way > that they are exposed to ONLY your 'cgi code'. The > trick I use is > > use lib "../lib"; > ..... > use MyNameSpace::Stuff; > .... > > this way the cgi code will know to look 'up and over' in > a lib directory to find the 'special stack of stuff'.... > > HTH. > > ciao > drieux > > --- > > The current state of the Documentation about > The Project From Hell: > <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/Proj/TPFH/gen_doc.html> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d s+:++ a C++ UL++ US+ P+++ L++ W+++ w PS PE t++ b+ G e r+++ z++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
