[cgiapp] newbie question: param()

[Adrian Grigore <suppressed>]

Hi Everybody!

I have just installed CGI::Application a few hours ago and am taking my 
first steps with this module. Unfortunately I have had major problems even 
running a generic application generated by CGI::Application::Generator. It 
might be something really obvious, but I have been trying to find out what 
is going wrong, read the manual twice, analyzed several demo applications 
but am still not able to figure out what's going wrong. I hope you'll 
forgive me pestering you with this newbie question.

My problems boil down to the fact that I don't seem to be able to set/get 
any Application parameters. Please consider the following example:

use strict;
use warnings;


use base qw/CGI::Application/;

sub setup {
        my $self = shift;

        #setting a simple string scalar parameter with name 
'testparamname' and value 'testparamvalue'... At least that's what I am 
*trying* here.
        $self->param('testparamname','testparamvalue');
        #getting the parameter value again
        print "\r\nmy parameter value:".$self->param('testparamname')."\r\n";
        ...
        }

Now, the problem is that this code actually prodoces the output "my 
parameter value: testparamname". So self->param() seems to return the 
parameter name, not it's value.

It's obvious that I must be missing something, but what is it? I've really 
run out of ideas.

Thanks in advance for your help!,



Adrian Grigore

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