NAME

Solstice::Session - Manage a Solstice Tools session.

SYNOPSIS

use CGI;
use Solstice::Session;

my $session = Solstice::Session->new;

#or, if you'd like to use a custom session name for the cookie
my $session = Solstice::Session->new('custom_name');

my $cookie = $session->cookie();
print CGI->header(-cookie => $cookie);

## To retrieve the session information
my $session = Solstice::Session->new;
$session->set('mydata', $mydata);
$session->get('mydata');

DESCRIPTION

Export

No symbols exported.

Methods

new()

new($cookie_name, $database_name)

Constructor. Values for $cookie_name and $database_name are provided by the configuration file if they are not specified in the constructor.

hasSession

Returns true if the user is reporting a session ID

getSessionID

getSubsessionID

getSubsessionChainID

setCookie()

getCookie()

getCookieName()

get( $key )

set($key , $val)

Sets the session object's passed attribute to a value.

fields()

setUser($person)

getUser()

setOriginalUser($person)

getOriginalUser()

setHasJavascript

hasJavascript()

getIllegalSession()

getLoginTime()

loadSubsession()

clear()

deleteSubsessionChain

For use when the user should not be able to back up to a previous state.

_getDefaultCookieName()

_generateSessionID

_createNewSession($cookie_name)

Create a new Cookie with name $cookie_name and set it

AUTHOR

Catalyst Group, <catalyst@u.washington.edu>

VERSION

$Revision: 3364 $

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1998-2007 Office of Learning Technologies, University of Washington

Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.