hi monks! I have what is hopefully a simple Catalyst question.

Scripts written using CGI::Fast can normally have persistent variables, basically anything declared outside of the request loop is persitent between requests for the life of the process.

Can someone please tell me how I can do this with Catalyst when I'm using its FCGI engine?

Basically I want to be able to create variables such as $COUNTER below. 

use CGI::Fast qw(:standard); 
$COUNTER = 0; 
while (new CGI::Fast) 
{ 
print header; 
print start_html("Fast CGI Rocks"); 
print h1("Fast CGI Rocks"), "Invocation number ",b($COUNTER++), " PID 
+",b($$),".", hr;
print end_html; 
}

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I've searched for this, but if it's out there I'm not finding it. thanks monks in advance! cheers!

In reply to Catalyst fcgi engine w. persistent variables by damian45

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