While a method like this is pretty commonly used in home rolled session systems (and works well enough), there is something that Apache::Session allows you to do via using Storable that you can't do with this mechanism.

Arbitrary data structures.

What happens when the session information I need to store goes beyond simple key value pairs? What if I have something like: 

# assume $session is via Apache::Session 
$session->{'email_targets'} = {
"john@doe.com" => {
                    'first_name' => 'John',
                    'last_name'  => 'Doe'
                   },
"jane@doe.com" => {
                    'first_name' => 'Jane',
                    'last_name'  => 'Doe'
                  }
};

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HTH

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In reply to (maverick) Re 4: Using Sessions between perl and php. by maverick
in thread Using Sessions between perl and php. by jryan

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