Re: CGI.pm param and mod_perl

[Dondi Stroma]

Michael Peters wrote:
Brian Gaber wrote:
Using $q was not successful.

That's because you ignored my advice :)

Here is what I have done:

use vars qw($q);

That makes $q a global. Bad, bad, very bad. Slap yourself on the wrist. 
Remove
that "use vars" line.

I don't see what is so bad about this:

use vars qw($q);
$q = CGI->new();

Even though it's a global variable, you are assigning it a new value, 
CGI->new, each time.

On the other hand, a subroutine should never use a lexical variable that was 
declared outside of it, at least not in a Registry type script because of 
the nested subroutines. So this is very bad and should trigger a "variable 
will not stay shared" warning:

my $q = CGI->new;
sub dostuff {
 print $q->param('foobar');
}

I suspect the problem is something else, possibly part of the script that we 
haven't seen.