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DirkvdL
DirkvdL

Reputation: 21

Website Perl Script fails with json module

I want to run a script which uses JSON on my website. I've tested the following script in the cgi-bin folder with success: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "<h1 align=center>\n";
print "Welcome to my website\n";
print "</h1>\n";

But as soon as I include the JSON module, the website's CMS (OpenCart) reverts to a "Page cannot be found" error:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use JSON;

print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "<h1 align=center>\n";
print "Welcome to my website\n";
print "</h1>\n";

A rep from the website host confirmed JSON is installed on the (linux) server

Am I using the correct syntax to include JSON in my script?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 231

Answers (1)

DirkvdL
DirkvdL

Reputation: 21

DVK commented:

Also, check if you have JSON or JSON::PP installed (the latter was in the core Perl since 5.14): perl -MJSON -e ''and perl -MJSON::PP -e ''

Thanks DVK, if I include use JSON::PP instead of use JSON, the script works.

I had to change some JSON-specific functions to JSON::PP functions (ie. change $json->objToJson to $json->encode) for it to work with JSON::PP.

This link also provided some help

Upvotes: 1

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