The obvious difference is that %udat will persist across connections as the values are
associated with the session while anything stored in the request object ($req) will
live only for the life of the request.
Generally, only put data that you want to use on subsequent requests in %udat.
I usually have some sort of constants.epl that is Execute()d from base files to set up
constants across the web request, eg urls of common pages etc. This stores values in
$req.
If you just want to pass a variable to the Execute()d file that is not a global then
just pass it in the Execute function call and retrieve it from @param.
Need 1: A variable that persists across all requests for a given browser: use %udat.
Eg $udat{key} = $value
Need 2: A request-specific global variable: store in $req. eg $req->{key} = $value
Need 3: An execute-specific variable, ie a function paramater: pass via the Execute
function.
Eg Execute('form.inc', $value1, $value2) or
Execute({ inputfile=>'form.inc', param=>[$value1,$value2]});
Form.inc:
[- $req = shift;
($value1,$value2) = @param; # or
$value1 = shift @param; $value2 = shift @param; -]
Hope that makes it clearer.
--
Andrew O'Brien
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 4:27 AM
> To: Embperl
> Cc: Luiz Fernando
> Subject: Re: sharing data across SSI's (Executes)
>
>
>
> Thanks for the advice. Is there a preference to using
> $req->{test} versus $udat{test} ?
>
> thanks,
> Brian
>
> Luiz Fernando wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 15:17, Brian Burke wrote:
> > > I have an Embperl question that hopefully someone can
> > > help me solve. Bear with me, I'll try to illustrate the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I run apache mod_perl with Embperl 1.3.4. I realize
> > > this is the old version, but I don't have the time, resources,
> > > or access level to do something about this. I have code
> > > in which I implement server side includes in embperl
> > > documents using Execute. example -
> > >
> > > [- $test = true; -]
> > > <html>
> > > <!-- this is index.html -->
> > > [- Execute ('form.inc') -]
> > > </html>
> > >
> > > where form.inc contains html to include for rendering a form.
> > >
> > > My question is, is there a way with Embperl 1.3.4 to
> > > share a perl variable (have the Executed page inherit
> > > the value)? For example, in the simple index.html
> > > example, above, is there a way for me to access the value
> > > of $test from within form.inc? Is there a different way to
> > > accomplish this?
> > >
> >
> > Use the req_rec object from mod_perl that is passed to all Executed
> > pages as the first argument in @_.
> >
> > [-
> > $req = shift;
> > $req->{test} = 'true';
> > -]
> > <html>
> > <!-- this is index.html -->
> > [- Execute ('form.inc') -]
> > </html>
> >
> > in form.inc do the same:
> > [-
> > $req = shift;
> > if ($req->{test} eq 'true') {
> > ...
> > }
> > else {
> > ...
> > }
> > -]
> >
> > --
> > Luiz Fernando Ribeiro
> > Engenho Solu��es S/C Ltda
> >
> >
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