CGI::Ex...onstants(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, gather round 🫶 — this is the manual page for CGI::Ex...onstants(3) (yes that's the page title, it's a little truncated, it's giving "my name got cut off in the group chat" 😭).

CGI::Ex::App::Constants — Easier access to magic App values ✨

that's it, that's the whole vibe. it hands you the magic-y constant values from the App so you don't have to type out a whole novel of a string every time. slay.

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🦋 VERSION 🦋

this is version 2.55 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay here's the whole look, in its natural habitat:

use base qw(CGI::Ex::App);
use CGI::Ex::App::Constants; # load all
use CGI::Ex::App::Constants qw(:App); # also load all
use CGI::Ex::App qw(:App); # also load all

__PACKAGE__->navigate;

sub main_run_step {
    my $self = shift;

    $self->cgix->print_content_type;
    print "Hello world\n";

    return App__run_step__request_completed;
}

# you can request only certain tags
use CGI::Ex::App::Constants qw(:App__run_step);
use CGI::Ex::App qw(:App__run_step);

# you can request only certain constants
use CGI::Ex::App::Constants qw(App__run_step__request_completed);
use CGI::Ex::App qw(App__run_step__request_completed);

so yeah — you can load all of it, or be picky and load just certain tags, or even more picky and load just certain constants. choose your own adventure, bestie 🎀

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🎀 CONSTANTS 🎀

not me being the kind of page that makes you ask it things 🙈 — the way that you find out what's importable is by literally running perl at it. iconic.

to see a list of the importable tags, type:

perl -MCGI::Ex::App::Constants -e 'CGI::Ex::App::Constants::tags()'

to see a list of the importable constants, type:

perl -MCGI::Ex::App::Constants -e 'CGI::Ex::App::Constants::constants()'

and if you want a little more discussion about the hooks and other CGI::Ex::App options, type:

perl -MCGI::Ex::App::Constants -e 'CGI::Ex::App::Constants::details()'

ngl, these three one-liners are the whole main character energy of this page — run them and they'll spill everything 💅

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that's the whole page, no cap ✨ this little beauty comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, it's sitting at perl v5.42.0 dated 2025-07-25, and it was living its life as CGI::Ex...onstants(3) the whole time. mwah 💖 go forth and constant, bestie 🦋