Good call... I knew there was something out there that did serialization for
objects, I just could remember what it was called.
-Sean
On Friday 17 December 2004 11:14 am, Larry Leszczynski wrote:
> Hi Jonathan -
>
> > > What you'll need to do is create a hidden field for EVERY member of
> > > the session object and then reassemble the object in the subsequent
> > > script:
> > >
> > > my $session = new Session;
> > > $session->{uid} = $q->param('uid');
>
> Depending on how big your session object is and what kind of stuff is in
> it, another thing you could try is to serialize the entire session into a
> string and use that as your hidden variable, and then unserialize when the
> form is submitted. You could use something like the Storable module's
> freeze and thaw methods, or maybe the Data::Serializer module:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~neely/Data-Serializer-0.28/lib/Data/Serializer.pm
>
> I haven't tried that one myself but it look interesting, it has options
> for which serializer gets used (including Storable) as well as optional
> encryption, compression, and ascii-armoring via hex or base64 (which
> you'd definitely want to make it safe to put in an HTML page).
>
>
> HTH,
> Larry Leszczynski
>
>
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