Global Config Module

2002-04-01 Thread Christopher H. Laco
I have a Perl Module that loads configuration data from various sources, ldap, ini, xml, etc. It was originally designed for batch file usage, but I want to start using it in some new mod_perl commerce site development I'm working on. Barring the usual global variable issues, what's the best

Re: Global Config Module

2002-04-01 Thread Perrin Harkins
Christopher H. Laco wrote: If I use the module in startup.pl, and have it load all of it's data at startup, it that the instance all child processes will use? Yes, that's the best way to do it. On a side note, I'm fairly comfortable with Perl/OOP at the batch/command/cgi level, but the

Re: Global Config Module

2002-04-01 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Christopher H. Laco wrote: If I use the module in startup.pl, and have it load all of it's data at startup, it that the instance all child processes will use? Yes, that's the best way to do it. On a side note, I'm fairly comfortable with Perl/OOP at the batch/command/cgi level, but the

Re: Global Config Module

2002-04-01 Thread Perrin Harkins
In my limited understanding then, in the startup.pl, one could do the following: use strict; use MyMod::Config(); MyMod::Config::load(); Yes. Then you can have a function for accessing the config variables, or put them in globals ($MyMod::Config::database_password), or various other