That's pretty much what I ended up doing; I like the 'keyword' appearance of constants though.

like STATUS_ERROR instead of $STATUS_ERROR :lol:



I tried something similar; to have a package...

Is there a standard way to make constants defined using the use constant pragma available to all of the packages that are use'd from an executed file?

Or even better, to make the constants defined...

I had a similar intention, and hit exactly the same problem (worked offline but not online); here's what I did:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread63673.html

That relies on you being...

Perl is quite bad (or good depending on how you look at it) for crypticness.

I never use those superglobal variables as implicit parameters or targets; it scares me ;)

But I'd much rather be...

That's madly tiny and cryptic :cheesy:

I've been working in Java today for a college project; I used Java for yeaars before I used Perl..

To do something similar to that in Java would be a...

I just advised someone to try that out (XAMPP)... I've never had problems with it, but I never used it all that much...

What are the specific problems with XAMPP? It's quite a 'light' distribution...

hey, no worries, i found the caller() function... even better i can call it retrospectively:

($package, $filename, $line, $subroutine, $hasargs, $wantarray, $evaltext, $is_require, $hints,...

In certain cases, it's correct for my app to die if it encounters a potentially dangerous condition... I'm working on a more detailed error reporting system, and among the things I want to list are;...

Ahh... solved it... Seems on my server I have to put everything in the eval block, pull the resultant object out of the eval block, AND explicitly define just where the eval is...

Something like...

is it possible, to use, or otherwise import and access the class in a .pm file by a suggested name (this would be after compilation)...

here's the lowdown, I've been working on a project for a...

should be the same if you use a correct path to the binary. some functions to access the binary will be different (won't work), but calling open $out," | *.exe" or exec(*.exe) should work the same......

fasthosts are very bad,

at my job, we have quite alot of client sites hosted on fasthosts with windows. I find their installed PHP modules are lacking, advertised support for "precompiled CGI"...

what do you mean by block? subroutine scope or method scope?

if you do one regex then another within a subroutine, you don't need to reset $1,$2,$3 etc, the next regex will overwrite the old...

use a better webhost :P

i find that on IIS (microsoft servers) i don't need to change permissions to use Perl files, and if i use FTP from the DOS prompt, it sets permissions to 755...

i tried uploading your script, from dos, to an apache and an IIS server. it worked fine both times.

what editor did you save your file using? the editor could have put incorrect line terminators,...

Ever wanted to evaluate a user-provided expression, maybe from a form input or otherwise, and return the result? eval($expr) is dangerous because eval(open $out, "> file.what"); will open the file,...

how did you put your file onto the server? did you upload it in ASCII mode? binary mode wont work. I had big problems using Windows FTP as it assumes the filetype and doesn't seem to have any...

i know it's the ultimate cliché advice, but try searching for how to do each part on google/etc.

how do you want to connect to the servers? if you can do these things by getting into a servers...

whatabout pipes?

open my($what), "| bin/what.exe -p whatever";
close ($what);

you should be able to read back live/streaming status if the program sends it... and you can definately send a...

hmmm that's strange... i start alot of my modules:


#!/usr/bin/perl
package X::X;
use Y::Y;
require Z::Z;
our(@ISA) = Z::Z;
1;
>>> and then put the code o_O

have you read this: http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/PAR-0.85/script/pp?

are you using the GUI interface for PP? I would try from the command line, and takenote of:



however, i would...

well. that's certainly better! i didn't realise i'd be able to access up there without using a different file access method. but seems as simple/even simpler than what i was doing before.

cool...

>_<

I guess if they're not important, I'll just read my error page and output that. It would have been nice if the .htaccess was obeyed.. but only in this case... I'm certainly glad I can use...

Hmm.. since i found out that query string was an environment variable; I only use CGI::Carp, everything else is just a print.

If the browser sees the Error Status Code, will it not just spit out...

My custom error pages (via.htaccess) work for browser requests, but when I print out an error status code from a cgi script, it bypasses .htaccess. I can't see any problem with just reading in an...

Maybe it is the Inline package itself that is missing from your resulting executable... do you reference any other packages that aren't in YOUR directory structure? i.e things from CPAN, and things...

hm, i didn't read your topic thouroughly, didn't realise you'd gone for the exe option in the end... there may be a problem with the linkage of things that you have compiled; are there complete...

ah... i had to type it all out before i remembered that... -_-

make sure you have an open command prompt window rather than typing the command into the Start > Run box. to open a command prompt window that wont disapear on completion, type cmd in the Start > Run...

do you import (use/require) the pm properly? does the pm file return 1 by default? does the pm file have a package definition? is it in the correct folder? there's a long list of checks...

heres...

Use this replace block:


s|((?<![\w\d])pi(?![\w\d]))|3.14|g


It has a negative lookbehind (?<![\w\d]) and lookahead (?![\w\d]) for characters preceeding and following the word pi. For more...

the best way to parse XML is to ensure it is always strict :) have you looked at methods like XSLT for rendering HTML pages? I reckon you COULD even build an entire BB solution in XSL, although it'll...

To elaborate on what Kevin said, you're gonna find working this ^ way to get more and more unworkable as your project gets bigger. I'm also working on some BB script in Perl at the moment, I've found...

I had a quick look at some of the Inline package documentation yesterday... It seems like you have an effective equivelent of C++ when you are using the package, so to terminate a C++ process will...

do you want to stop a perl thread or a thread in an unrelated process?

the exit command should stop a perl thread. die may kill all threads (although it probably shouldn't?) and kill can be used...

Wahey... I have got it working how I originally wanted without the problem I just mentioned..

It doesn't seem conventional certainly.. And there is a potential risk of the user hitting Refresh...

You're right! I've changed my methods somewhat, and all my pages are processed by a CGI script. A side effect of that is that now I can pass GET/POST requests through the current page; making it...

The perl interpretter is written in C but .pl files aren't executable. You can't make them executable without using some kind of Perl-to-C translater.

I wouldn't advise translating them!

ah.. got it. disregard this!

%ENV->{REQUEST_URI} returns the path/file. that's useable.

I've just registered a MIME handler for a custom filetype; I've got the basic redirection sorted, all files of type XRM get sent to a 'dumb' perl script that echos predefined values.

But, how do...