> What is the difference between how a BEGIN block and an anonymous block > in a module loaded into mod_perl?
It looks to me like you are confused about "our" and BEGIN. If you change the "our" to a "use vars" I think it will fix your problems. This is not mod_perl-specific. > Are anonymous blocks in a module only read and executed when mod-perl > first loads them, ie once? The block in your example is not inside of a subroutine, so it will only be called once when the module is loaded. > Another problem is when I try to build a SELECT HTML element with a > call to > the CGI module. In my anonymous block all of a sudden the HTML form > variables > are no longer available with the CGI::param call. Yet I can build the > select element later in the cgi scripts using the same variables > without a problem. I'm guessing it's more scoping problems with "our." > In a simpler line, should I have a use DBI() in startup.pl as well as > the > PerlModule Apache::DBI in httpd.conf? You need to use both Apache::DBI and DBI somewhere. Either place is fine. I usually pull in lots of modules, so it's easier to do in startup.pl. - Perrin
