Re: Sharing session data with Perl

> Is there a published spec of the format of the session data string? > > It would greatly simplify one of my applications if I could share data > between PHP and Perl using sessions. Since I use MySQL to store session > information, it would be trivial for me to make a call to a Perl script > with a session id, and, within Perl, grab the session data, parse it, > use it, perhaps even change it, and then return control back to my PHP > application. > > So, if I knew the exact format of the data string, I could avoid having > to try to guess at its structure, and write a Perl routine to decode it > and store it in a session hash... > > Has anyone tried this before? I would use the WDDX serializer if you are interested in cross-platform sharing of the data. In your php.ini file use: session.serialize_handler = wddx Then use the WDDX Perl module to decode it in Perl. -Rasmus