I am using version 1.54, the latest version from CPAN. If there is a more advanced version, I am not aware of it.

Apache::Session::DBI did require a separate install; however, most of the tutorials that I found on the web used Apache::Session::DBI as the basis.

As for the sample code, I am using the bare minimum sample code shown in the pod documentation. At any rate, here it is, for those who do not have the module downloaded (note: $id is a varible passed through the query string; it is paramed in using the CGI module):

For Apache::Session::MySQL

my $dbh=DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=sessions;host=localhost","roo
+t", "");
my $opts = {Handle => $dbh};
tie my %session, 'Apache::Session::MySQL', $id, $opts;
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For Apache::Session::DBI

my $ops = {
 DataSource => 'dbi:mysql:sessions',
 UserName   => 'root',
 Password   => ''
};
tie my %session, 'Apache::Session::DBI', $id, $opts;
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