Running Weblogs with Slash

Name

createEnvironment — sets up Slash to run scripts outside of the web environment

Synopsis

createEnvironment();
createEnvironment($virtual_user);

createEnvironment initializes several Slash components that would normally be set when running under Apache. This includes creating a database connection and setting the current user to the Anonymous User. It takes an optional single parameter, $virtual_user, which is the string name of the DBIx::Password virtual user associated with the database that will be used. Lacking this parameter, it will look through @ARGV for key/value pairs of the form “key=value”. If it finds a key named virtual_user, it will use the associated value. It returns nothing and will perform no action if running under mod_perl. This function is exported from Slash::Utility.

Example

use Slash::Utility;
my $virtual_user = $ARGV[0];
createEnvironment($virtual_user);