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NAME

Apache2::ASP::Manual::ASP_Compilation - Documentation about ASP Compilation

DESCRIPTION

When Apache2::ASP receives a request for an ASP script, it goes through the following steps:

1 Does the ASP script exist?
2 Was it already compiled?
3 Is the ASP script newer?
4 Recompile the ASP script if necessary.
5 Load up the *.pm file.
6 Execute the *.pm file.

ASP Scripts are "compiled" into Perl modules that look like the following:

#==============================================================================
# THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY Apache2::ASP::PageHandler.
# TIMESTAMP: Thu Jun 28 23:18:17 2007
# CHANGES TO THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN WHEN THE ASP SCRIPT IS CHANGED
#==============================================================================
package DefaultApp::index_asp;
use strict;
use warnings 'all';
no warnings 'redefine';
use base 'Apache2::ASP::PageHandler';
use vars qw(
  $Session    $Server
  $Request    $Response
  $Form       $Application
  $Config
);
our $TIMESTAMP = 1183094297;
#line 1
sub process_request { $Response->Write(q~~);
  $Response->Write("Hello, World!");
  return;
;$Response->Write(q~
~);
}
1;# return true:

=pod

=head2 process_request( )

=cut

Yes, you guessed it. This one prints "Hello, World!" to the browser.

FILE NAMES

If your ASP script is /index.asp then your *.pm file will be index_asp.pm.

If your ASP script is /members/bob/bio.asp then your *.pm file will be members_bob_bio_asp.pm.

And so on.

WHAT IS THE POINT?

ASP scripts are compiled to Perl modules and stored on disk for 2 reasons:

Performance

Even though the ASP parser is quite fast (Apache2::ASP::Parser) it is still extra work that can be avoided.

By storing the resulting output on disk we can reduce some overhead and get a slight performance boost.

Testing

Yes - you can test your ASP scripts using Devel::Cover just like any other Perl module.

You can learn more about this by reading up on Apache2::ASP::Test::UserAgent.

Please read the Testing Intro at http://apache2-asp.no-ip.org/how-to/website-code-coverage-testing.asp to see how testing works.

BUGS

It's possible that some bugs have found their way into this release.

Use RT http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Apache2-ASP to submit bug reports.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the Apache2::ASP homepage at http://www.devstack.com/ to see examples of Apache2::ASP in action.

AUTHOR

John Drago mailto:jdrago_999@yahoo.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007 John Drago, All rights reserved.

This software is free software. It may be used and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.