RE: [ic] Adding a system wide module

["Ron Phipps" <suppressed>]

> From: suppressed
[mailto:interchange-users-
> suppressed On Behalf Of Jeff Fearn
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:37:18 -0800, Ed LaFrance (New Media LLC)
> <suppressed> wrote:
> > At 09:16 PM 1/30/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > >Hi, I want to allow the Date::Calc modules functions to be used in
the
> > >HTML pages on my site. Is there one place I can put this that will
> > >allow it to be run on any store on the server?
> > >
> > >Jeff
> >
> > The best thing to do would be to install the module in your system
Perl,
> > though you could also install it locally for Interchange.
> 
> I have Date::Calc installed in the system perl.
> 
> > The you can call
> > it in a GlobalSub or UserTag, and perhaps even in a [perl global=1]
> block,
> > provided that you have the catalog in the AllowGlobal configuration
> string.
> 
> Does this mean that I need to write a wrapper for every function I
> wanted to use from Date::Calc?
> 
> I was hoping to be able to bypass the Tag stuff entirely, just using
> [perl] and writting perl code in that on html pages.
> 
> Jeff

Set AllowGlobal for this catalog in interchange.cfg and then in your
inline perl block call it like this:

[perl global=1]

use Date::Calc qw(Day_of_Week Add_Delta_Days);

[/perl]

That should work for you, good luck!
-Ron

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