Mod Perl Helper Functions Library

[James Taylor <jt...@hatesville.com>]

Hi everyone, I'm running apache 1.3.x with the associated version of 
mod_perl, but am having trouble creating regular old include
files to be used with helper functions.  Works just great with regular 
old CGI, mod_perl doesn't like it.  Say for example I have two files, 
main.pl and helper.pl.
Contents of helper.cgi are:

# helper.pl
sub dowhatever() {   # this is completely pointless, i'm just using it 
as an example
    my %params=@_;  my $p;
    foreach my $k(sort keys %params) { $k =~ s/'$//g;  $p.=$k; }
    return $p;
}
1;

# main.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Apache::Constants qw(OK DECLINED SERVER_ERROR FORBIDDEN);
use Apache::Cookie ();
require('helper.pl');

#..............some stuff
my $q=&dowhatever(%somehash);


That doesn't work in the least, I keep getting errors in my apache logs 
saying sub dowhatever is an undefined function, etc.  Is it possible to
even do anything like this in mod_perl, or do I need to write an Apache 
module / Perl Module just to have helper functions in there?
Also, I know it's poor style to put multiple statements on 1 line, I 
just wanted to make this message shorter, so no style tips please. 
Thanks for any help!


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