Mark Hensler — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:18:49 +0000

In order to require a page that has a path constructed with a variable, do you need to eval it? Or should it work without the eval?

tmay — Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:17:18 +0000

Also, you do know that whatever you require has to have some prewritten Perl code in it, right? The require command actually imports a program, not a regular text file.

tmay — Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:21:20 +0000

Try to do this:

eval("require \"/absolute/path/to/files/$FORM{'id'}/options.txt\";");

But don't forget to check ID! Eval is very insecure, if you use it bad...
For example, if $FORM{'id'} is a number, this code is much more secure:

$id=$FORM{'id'}+0;
eval("require \"/absolute/path/to/files/$id/options.txt\";");

If I'm totally wrong here, explain exactly what you are trying to do and what options.txt is and why you are calling it.

Mark Hensler — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:14:22 +0000

Have you tried echoing the string to check the path?
I don't think I've ever tried that with Perl, but it works in PHP.