hi ,

I am new to perl .I have a query regarding accessing stored session .Kindly pls help :

here is my firstpage.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl  -w
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw/:all :html3/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $cgi = new CGI;
use CGI::Session qw();
my $session = CGI::Session->new();
print $cgi->header;
print $session->header;
print "<html><head>";
print "</head>";
print "<body>";

# here are the values from the HTML form
my $username = param('username');
my $password = param('password');
my $groups;

my $dbh=DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=:host=:user=root') || die "Co
+uld not connect to database: ". DBI->errstr;

my $query = "select  user,password,groups  from login_ro where user li
+ke '$username' and password like '$password' ";

my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query) or die "Couldnt prepare statement:" .$db
+h->errstr;

$sth->execute();

if(($username,$password,$groups)= $sth->fetchrow_array)
            {

                          chomp($username);
                                    chomp($password);
                                    chomp($groups);


                                    print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\
+" content=\"0; url=./dashboard_status.pl?groups=$groups\" />";
                                    print "<input type=hidden name=\"u
+sername\" value=\"$username\">";
                                     $session->param("ro", $groups);
                                     $session->param("user", $username
+);
                                     $session->param(User_id => 'U0000
+2');



                                     my $regional_office = $session->p
+aram("ro");
                                     print "$regional_office";
                                     my $tmp=$session->param("User_id"
+);
                                     print "$tmp";
            }


            else {
                print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=.
+/errlogin.pl\" />";
            }





# print bottom of page
print <<HTML;
</body>
</html>
HTML

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this is my second.pl page: 
#!/usr/bin/perl  -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use CGI qw/:all :html3/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
use CGI::Session qw();
use sub test();
my $cgi = new CGI;
print "<html><head>";
my $session = CGI::Session->new((undef, $cgi, {Directory=>"/tmp"}));
$session = CGI::Session->new();
print $session->header;
my $dbh=DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=:user=root;host=') || die "Co
+uld not connect to database: ". DBI->errstr;

my $group = param('groups');
my $atmcount;
my $regional_office = $session->param('ro');          ///here is am ac
+cesing stored session 
my $tmp= $session->param('User_id');

print "regional--->$regional_office";
 my $user = $session->param('user');

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but I am not able to access the stored session .Kindly please help .

In reply to reg access of stored session variable by amithublikar

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