Re: mod_perl usage

Hmm. I am using strict, but I do have many "globals".  Here are the 
first few lines of our program:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use lib '/path/to/something/';
use tools qw($dbh $webpage_obj &displayError $template &messageDie);

$template = new HTML::Template(filename => 
'/home/omnovia/public_html/pages/sctest/templates/background.tpl',
                         path => 
'/home/omnovia/public_html/pages/sctest/templates/',
                         cache => 1,
                         debug => 1,
                         stack_debug => 1,
                         cache_debug => 1,
                         die_on_bad_params => 0);

tools::DBConnect();

my ($companyID, $firstName, $lastName, $companyUsername);
<several more lines of my's before getting into functions>

Interestingly enough, companyID (the main var) is listed in the first my 
block. So that's global scope and would not be cleared?

Beginning to make sense now. $companyID is used in just about every 
function, which is why it was made global. Should I instead write a 
function that gets all the vars from the web call and just pass them in 
between function calls?

As I'm sure you have all learned by now, I'm not a perl programmer..

Thanks,
-Matthew


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