Re: writing modules

2000-05-26 Thread Philip Newton
Kathryn Cassidy wrote: > Now the module will need to use the DBI module in order to connect to > the database, but the scripts that it will be called from will also > usually use DBI. Does this mean that the whole DBI module will be > imported twice for each script which uses this module? Or doe

writing modules

2000-05-26 Thread Kathryn Cassidy
Hello there, I'm trying to write a little module here that I can include in a lot of my scripts. The module will handle authentication by getting the currently logged in user from a browser, connecting to a database containing a permissions table which determines who can run what scripts, and ch