Hi, i am trying to implement user sessions in my web application to add security and enable information to be passed from an inital form to mysql queries in later forms. I have been using the following code 
use CGI::Session;
use CGI;

#set up a session
$cgi = CGI->new;
$session = CGI::Session->new("driver:File", $cgi, {Directory=>"./tmp"}
+);
$sid = $session->id();

$cookie = $cgi->cookie(CGISESSID => $session->id);
print $cgi->header( -cookie=>$cookie );
$sid = $cgi->cookie("CGISESSID") || undef;
$session = new CGI::Session(undef, $sid, {Directory=>'/tmp'});

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However this is not working, here are a few of the errors that I am getting 
Global symbol "$cgi" requires explicit package name at /....ls/result.
+cgi line 49.
Global symbol "$session" requires explicit package name at /....ls/res
+ult.cgi line 50.
Global symbol "$cgi" requires explicit package name at /....ls/result.
+cgi line 50.
Global symbol "$sid" requires explicit package name at /....ls/result.
+cgi line 51.
Global symbol "$session" requires explicit package name at /....ls/res
+ult.cgi line 51.
Global symbol "$cookie" requires explicit package name at 
/....ls/result.cgi line 53.
Global symbol "$cgi" requires explicit package name at /....ls/result.
+cgi line 53.

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Can anybody see why this is not working? Thanks

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