My apologies if this is redundant. I didn't get the exact anwser that I was looking for from the older posts. This is what I want:

use strict;
our $HOMEPATH = "$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}";
require 'conf.pl';
make some use of $CGIBINDIR;

inside of conf.pl:

$CGIBINDIR = $HOMEPATH . "/cgi-bin";

This works fine without use strict; using strict gives me this error: Global symbol "$CGIBINDIR" requires explicit package name.

If this can't be done, I'd be more than willing to listen to some alternatives to accomplish the same thing regardless of the complexity. I'm just starting the website and want to get use strict working now before it's completely unstrictable.

Thanks,
Marty

You need to declare that variable.....

my ($CGIBINDIR);
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

So, I put a my $CGIBINDIR; before the require and the value was returned filled after the require. Thanks.

However, I had wanted to use the conf.pl like a .h file in C. Declaring all of the variables before the require defeats the purpose of declaring them in one spot.

Do you have another suggestion?

Thanks again,
Marty

After discovering the Modules chapter in 'Programming Perl', I changed config.pl to Config.pm and added the following to the new module:

package Config;
require Exporter;

our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw($CGIBINDIR);

I still can't access $CGIBINDIR from outside of the module. The book says that I should be able to access it after a use or require on Config.pm. When the book says something and I can't do it; it's usually me.

Any suggestions?
Marty

Is it really necessary to declare $CGIBINDIR in the conf.pl?

If not, the simple way could be...

The full path to your cgi-bin directory would be:
our $CGIBINDIR = "$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/cgi-bin";

You may want to look at Tools::Load,

http://search.cpan.org/...04/lib/Tools/Load.pm

Thanks,

Zeshan.