On 6/8/06, Graeme McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Anthony, good idea about overriding the table names. I had a feeling
there would be a conf file somewhere. As I am outputting the results of the
SELECT to an HTML::Template I am already using a Conf file which is another
class. This leads me on to another question. If I instantiate my class and
create a Conf object within $log->view then the Conf file won't be loaded
till this method is invoked. I want to have all the Conf details available
at the same time, I don't want to instantiate the Conf class several times
and hold several copies of the Conf in memory when only one is required. So
how or where should I instantiate it?
If everything related to the app is encapsulated withing your Log
package, put it in the constructor
package Log;
sub new
{
//create object
$self->init();
}
sub init
{
open(CONF, $conf) or die "can't open config file: $!";
while(<CONF>)
{
next if (m/^#/); #skip comments
my ($option) = $_ =~ s/(.*?)#/; #skip inline comments
my ($key, $val) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $option);
$self->{$key} = $val;
}
close(CONF);
return $self;
}
sub getTablePrefix
{
my $self = shift;
return $self->{'table_prefix'};
}
So now when you can print Dumper($self->{'table_prefix'}); and it
should have the value from the config file.
my $log = new Log;
print $log->getTablePrefix();
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