I've been doing similar things regularly, and finally over the last few weeks have been trying to pack my regular practice into a CPAN compatible module.

My two modules are Object::Generic and Object::Generic::Session. Using them (in HTML::Mason, here) looks something like this: 

# -- file httpd.conf --     
# (Define the session global.)
 PerlAddVar MasonAllowGlobals $session

 # -- file htdocs/autohandler -
 # (Retrieve the session; process webpage.)
 % $session = new Object::Session::Generic( 
 %             session_config => { Store=>'MySQL', ... }, 
 %             cookie_name    => 'your cookie name here',
 %             expires        => '+8h',
 %            );
 % $m->call_next;
 % $session = undef;
 
 # -- file htdocs/file.html --    
 # (Use the session to access key/value pairs.)
 <html>
 % if ($username){
 %   $session->user( 
 %     new Object::Generic( name => $username )
 %   );
 % }
 % if ($session->user){
    Hi <% $session->user->name %>.  Welcome back.
 % } else { 
    <form>
      Please log in: <input type="text" name="username" />
    </form>
 % }
 </html>
 <%args>
   $username => ''
 </%args>

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You can find Object::Generic and Object::Generic::Session at http://cs.marlboro.edu/code/perl/modules/ if you want to check them out.

Update: I've just uploaded v0.02 of both of these to CPAN.

In reply to Re: Structure of a custom class (using Apache::Session) by barrachois
in thread Structure of a custom class (using Apache::Session) by jeyroz

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