Re: Understanding the Use of Session Variables

To pass session variables between different pages you normally use cookies. CGI::Session::Tutorial should answer most of your questions.

Oh, and use CGI::Session and CGI instead of hand-rolling your own CGI parser (looking at that nasty split line...)

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Re^2: Understanding the Use of Session Variables by spickles (Scribe) on Mar 05, 2009 at 16:22 UTC
Thanks for the reply. I am already using CGI (from my code above I didn't show you that $q-> new CGI();) and I am looking to use CGI::Session b/c I agree that splitting the QUERY_STRING is not the best method. But then again, we all crawled before we ran, right? I'm not a programmer by any means. It is simply by the virtue of the helpful folks here at PerlMonks and countless hours of reading/writing/testing that I am able to perform the minimal Perl/CGI writing that I do. Once I set a cookie, how to I access it from the second page? I'm assuming that if I use the default method for generating a cookie that it's name will be the session ID. So I still have to know what that is to reference the cookie from page two, right? `my $session = new CGI::Session(); print $session->header();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Understanding the Use of Session Variables by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 05, 2009 at 16:28 UTC
Did you even read the tutorial I linked to? In the end you have to understand what you're doing, and the best way is to read introduction level tutorial like the one I gave you, and then start experimenting. Once I set a cookie, how to I access it from the second page? By using CGI:Session. It looks in the header, finds the session ID in the cookie, and then loads the session object from local storage.	[reply]
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