Sessions with only standard modules

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Hi all,

I have to write a few CGI scripts and my webhost has both PHP and perl.
I'd far rather use perl, but I probably will need session tracking.
The problem is that
a) my host does not have anything aside from the standard modules. No mod_pe
rl, no
CGI:Session.

b) I can't install modules locally due to not having acess to the necessary 
tools. no
command-line perl etc.

So what I'd like to know is if there's any way I could do session tracking w
ith just
CGI.pm or if it's not worth the bother and I should just have to grit my tee
th and
use PHP?

I know what the answer's probably going to be :(

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Leo Fellmann wrote:
> I have to write a few CGI scripts and my webhost has both PHP and perl.
> I'd far rather use perl, but I probably will need session tracking.
> The problem is that
> a) my host does not have anything aside from the standard modules. No
> mod_perl, no CGI:Session.
>
> b) I can't install modules locally due to not having acess to the
> necessary tools. no command-line perl etc.

Pure Perl modules can be 'installed' locally by simply uploading the
*.pm files to appropriate directories. I believe CGI::Session is such a
pure Perl module that does not need to be pre-compiled. If that's the
case, you can designate a directory for Perl modules, upload the
necessary files into that directory (appying the right structure), and
include something like

use lib '/path/to/local/Perl/library';

at the beginning of your scripts.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
| Leo Fellmann wrote:
|
|> I have to write a few CGI scripts and my webhost has both PHP and perl.
|> I'd far rather use perl, but I probably will need session tracking.
|> The problem is that
|> a) my host does not have anything aside from the standard modules. No
|> mod_perl, no CGI:Session.
|>
|> b) I can't install modules locally due to not having acess to the
|> necessary tools. no command-line perl etc.
|
|
| Pure Perl modules can be 'installed' locally by simply uploading the
| *.pm files to appropriate directories. I believe CGI::Session is such a
| pure Perl module that does not need to be pre-compiled. If that's the
| case, you can designate a directory for Perl modules, upload the
| necessary files into that directory (appying the right structure), and
| include something like
|
|     use lib '/path/to/local/Perl/library';
|
| at the beginning of your scripts.

Yes. I tried that, but CGI::Session unfortunately won't behave. It complains
 about
auxiliary files not being there, that I presume should have been created dur
ing
installation.
I can't do much about it, lacking both make and perl.
I will have another go, as I've just read the makefile and can't quite see w
hy it was
misbehaving.  If all else fails I could ask the host to install it  but they
 are very
likely not around for the near future, it being holiday season.


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Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
| Leo Fellmann wrote:
|
|> I have to write a few CGI scripts and my webhost has both PHP and perl.
|> I'd far rather use perl, but I probably will need session tracking.
|> The problem is that
|> a) my host does not have anything aside from the standard modules. No
|> mod_perl, no CGI:Session.
|>
|> b) I can't install modules locally due to not having acess to the
|> necessary tools. no command-line perl etc.
|
|
| Pure Perl modules can be 'installed' locally by simply uploading the
| *.pm files to appropriate directories. I believe CGI::Session is such a
| pure Perl module that does not need to be pre-compiled. If that's the
| case, you can designate a directory for Perl modules, upload the
| necessary files into that directory (appying the right structure), and
| include something like
|
|     use lib '/path/to/local/Perl/library';
|
| at the beginning of your scripts.

Ah, never mind. I've managed; it turned out it uses autoload and not being a
ble to
install it normally was making it complain because auto/* was missing. Insta
lling it
locally and copying over auto/CGI/* did the trick.

Thanks :)

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Leo Fellmann
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