At 07:16 PM 8/1/2001 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> > I have a CGI application where I do:
> >
> > require 'db.pl';
> >
> > where db.pl defines some functions and variables related to connecting to
> > the database, and then executes C<$dbh = DBI->connect(...)>.
>
><snip>
>
> > I can get around this by changing C<require> to C<do>, but is that the
> > "correct" way of doing things?
>
>No. Put the connect stuff in a subroutine and call it from your
>application. Things in the main section of a required file are only
>supposed to run once.
I am not sure, but I don't think connect() is only supposed to run once
especially with Apache::DBI?
