Hi,

I am trying to use CGI::Session 4.42 on a Redhat Enterprise system running Apache 2. I also have the default redhat MySQL build for my redhat version.

I am just starting out with CHI::Session and I must be doing something wrong... but I can not figure it out.

I have tried to use ideas from the CGI::Session tutorial and I have the following for a login function:

NOTES: "$dbh" is an active database handle. It is defined and created elsewhere in the code.
"$CGI" is an active CGI.pm instance. It is defined and created elsewhere in the code.
"$CONFIG" is a hash that holds configuration info that is pulled in from an external onfig file.

The following executes without error but no records are stored in the database. A sessionID is acquired from CGI::Session and a cookie is created that looks correct but, again, no session data is stored in the "sessions" table.

All ideas are welcome. I am probably not doing something fundamental.

sub login {
    my ($dbh) = @_;

    my ($email)    = $dbh->quote($CGI->param('email')    || undef);
    my ($password) = $dbh->quote($CGI->param('password') || undef);

    my ($loginSessionID) = $CGI->param('loginSessionID') || undef;

    eval {
        #
        # email should be an RFC compliant email address.
        #

        my $tmp = <<EOF;
SELECT
    id
FROM
    users
WHERE
    LOWER(email) = LOWER($email)
        AND password = $password
EOF

        my $sth = &return_query($dbh, $tmp);
        my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array;

        $result{userID} = undef;

        if (@row) {
            $result{userID}         = $row[0];

            CGI::Session->name(
                 $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{name} ||
                 "CGISESSID");

            $SESSION = CGI::Session->load("driver:MySQL",
                            $CGI || $loginSessionID, 
                            {
                                DataSource  => join(':',
                                    $CONFIG->{mysql}{DSN},
                                    $CONFIG->{mysql}{Collection}),
                                TableName   => 'sessions',
                                IdColName   => 'id',
                                DataColName => 'data',
                                Handle      => $dbh,
                            }) ||
                die CGI::Session->errstr() . "\n";

            if ($SESSION->is_expired) {
                #
                # If we are picking up an old session see if it is
                # already expired.  If it is expired delete it from
                # the store and flush the session data.
                #
                $SESSION->delete();
                $SESSION->flush();

            }
            if ($SESSION->is_empty) {
                #
                # This "new" is CGI::Session magic.  THe session
                # definition in the "load" above is remembered and
                # will be re-applied here.
                #
                $SESSION = CGI::Session->new();

            }

            $result{loginSessionID} = $SESSION->id();

            $SESSION->param('userID', $result{userID});
            $SESSION->expire(
                      $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{expire} |
+|
                      "+30m");

            $COOKIES{loginSession} = $CGI->cookie(
                -name    => $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{nam
+e},
                -value   => $SESSION->id(),
                -expires =>
                      $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{expire} |
+|
                      "+30m",
                -path    => $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{pat
+h} ||
                            "/",
                -domain  =>
                      $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{domain} |
+|
                      "",
                -secure  =>
                      $CONFIG->{userSession}{cookies}{LOGIN}{secure} |
+|
                      0,
            );

            $SESSION->flush();
        }
    };
    if ($@) {
        push(@{ $result{error} }, $@);
    }

    return encode_json(\%result);
}
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