Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

On Jan 21, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Tracy12 wrote:

> If have a Authentication handler written in perl,
>
> How can count the no of times it has been accessed by clients,  
> (Some think
> like no of hits .  Counter).
>
> Is there a specific handler to do this ?
>
> I tried to declare
> use vars qw( $SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER); and increment within the  
> code doent
> seem to work,
>
> Shoud i increment this in a specific hanlder.
>
> Thanks


variables in modperl are copy on write.  that means  
$SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER is independent to each apache child.
you need to look for shared memory modules on cpan, or use a database.



// Jonathan Vanasco

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