Cees Hek wrote:
> On 4/24/06, Ed Pigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So how I put things like session initialization, database connection,
>> etc.. in the SUPER::cgiapp_init sub. So my SUB CLASS would be
>> something like
>>
>> sub cgiapp_init {
>> my $self = shift;
>> $self->SUPER::cgiapp_init(@_);
>> $self->start_mode();
>> $self->run_modes( ... );
>> }
>
> Yes, that would work. But if you are doing stuff like session init
> and database connections, and you are sure you want to do this on all
> requests, for every runmode, then I would suggest using Michael's
> suggestion and set up a callback (which will always run regardless of
> what you do in the subclass). That is safer, since you don't have to
> remember to add that SUPER call in the subclass everytime.
>
> __PACKAGE__->add_callback(init => \&_my_init);
If you're just doing the standard stuff (session initialization, db
connection, etc) there are plugins that will take care of that for you.
One of the biggest benefits of those plugins is that most of them do
lazy loading, so no db connection is created until you use it.
--
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP
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