Hello Monks,

A while ago, I asked for advice concerning templating systems. I got a lot of really good advice. After looking over all of the systems, I chose to work with HTML::Template. I am very happy with it. It is easy to use and seems to make sense to me. I have some questions about it though. The questions deal with sessioning.

What is the best way to authenticate a user, assign him/her a session, and then base what that user can or can not do based off of that session? Are there any modules specifically for HTML::Template that deal with this issue?

I understand the basics. It makes sense to authenticate the user server side and then assign a session to that user. I plan on “giving” the user a cookie with the session ID. When the user accesses the site, the cookie would be checked for the session and actions would be based off of the session ID.

Once this is figured out, I can tailor navigational headers to individual users and other cool things.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you,
ghettofinger

In reply to HTML::Template and authenticated sessions by ghettofinger

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