Perl Includes in PT

davemackey

I am attempting to use perl includes require("common.ipl") in my presentation templates. I have this working for functions that do not access the DCR. When I attempt to read values from the dcr in a common include function. I receive an Preview and Generate error. Is there a special way of accessing DCR values from a function that is included.

#### Common ipl file

sub test1{
return "<test/>";
}

sub test2 {
return iwpt_dcr_value('dcrpath');
}


#### PT template
<iw_perl>
<![CDATA[
require("common.ipl");
iwpt_output(test1());
iwpt_output(test2());
]]>
</iw_perl>

If I comment out the second iwpt_output everything works fine.

TS 6.5
Window 2003

Thanks for your help.

chuckles

First off, this post belongs in the Templating forum. Second, you cannot require and ipl file. The .ipl extension is for executables which you can certainly run using a system call (see system() or backticks ``). The require keyword is for importing perl modules which should have a .pm extension (see perlmod). Is common.ipl a script or a module?