Open Source Web Development with LAMP: Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP

11.4. A Quick Example

Let’s show an example. We create the file /var/www/html/mason/test.html and place the following contents within it: ^[1]

^[1] Set the permissions to 644, but you already knew that, right?

% my $name = ´John Doe´; 

<html> 
<head> 
<title>Mason Example</title> 
</head> 
<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 

Hello, <% $name %>! 
<br>2 + 3 = <% 2 + 3 %> 

</body> 
</html> 

You will notice right away that our first Mason example is not “hello, world!”. We apologize for the inconsistency.

At the top of this file is % my $name = ´John Doe´;. The character “%” indicates that this line is Perl code to be executed. ^[2] The variable $name is defined using the my() function. Global variables in Mason must be my() variables—if they are not declared with