I am going to investigate Mason and Mojolicious Lite. Do they have built-in first-class session support? In file1.php 
 <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['hello']=23; ?>

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and in file2.php 
  <?php session_start(); echo $_SESSION['hello']; ?>

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does exactly what one expects, as long as the browser remains the same. php nicely takes care of sending a random cookie at the right time of the http protocol, and stores the 'hello' variable in the thereby-named disk file on the server. I know I can write this myself, but this reinvents a painful wheel. transparent variable persistence across different webpages is quite nice.

there? not there?

In reply to Re^2: perl as a php alternative by iaw4
in thread perl as a php alternative by iaw4

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