--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 May 2000 Jeffrey Baker --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------- This is Apache::Session 1.50. These modules provide persistent storage for arbitrary data, in arbitrary backing stores. The details of interacting with the backing store are abstracted to make all backing stores behave alike. The programmer simply interacts with a tied hash. Apache::Session is Copyright(c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Jeffrey William Baker . Distribute under the same terms as Perl itself. PREREQUISITES ------------- To use this distribution of Apache::Session, you need the Storable and MD5 modules from CPAN. If you intend to extend this module for your own purposes, you may not need these prerequisites. If you wish to use the DBI backing stores, you need the latest version of DBI and the driver for your database. Currently MySQL, Postgres, and Oracle are supported. INSTALLATION ------------ tar -xvzf Apache-Session-1.50.tar.gz cd Apache-Session-1.50 perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Substitute "nmake" for "make" above if you are using Windows. EXAMPLE ------- See eg/example.perl. This program is intended to be run under mod_perl. AUTHORS ------- Jeffrey William Baker is the author of Apache::Session. Andreas J. Koenig contributed valuable CPAN advice and also Apache::Session::Tree and Apache::Session::Counted. Gerald Richter had the idea for a tied hash interface and provided the initial code for it. He also uses Apache::Session in his Embperl module and is the author of Apache::Session::Embperl. Jochen Wiedmann contributed patches for bugs and improved performance. Steve Shreeve squashed a bug in 0.99.0 whereby a cleared hash or deleted key failed to set the modified bit. Peter Kaas sent quite a bit of feedback with ideas for interface improvements. Randy Harmon contributed the original storage-independent object interface with input from: Bavo De Ridder Jules Bean Lincoln Stein FURTHER INFORMATION: -------------------- Apache by Apache Group comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix http://www.apache.org/ mod_perl by Doug MacEachern modperl@apache.org http://perl.apache.org/