You are seriously mixing apples and oranges. As long as you are not dipping into the server's memory (for example, via mod_perl or some other persistence mechanism), it doesn't matter whether you are declaring a variable with my or our or their or her or his. It doesn't even matter whether you are using Perl or Ruby or Python or whatever.

Think of it this way... when user A sends requests a web page, a custom web page is constructed for user A, and sent back to user A. No one, no one in the world, in fact, not even user A using another browser on the same computer, gets that first page. Only user A, within the browser from which user A requested the page, only that user gets that page. That connection, between that instance of the browser and the web server, that connection is a session, and that session lasts only for the duration of that connection. To make it last longer... well, that is session and state management, and that is your responsibility.

Of course, if you use any persistence framework, all bets are off, and session management kicks in. Once again, you will be greatly helped by reading up on sessions and state management in web processes.

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In reply to Re^7: HTML Template by punkish
in thread HTML Template by Anonymous Monk

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