CGI or CGI::Simple

Multiple instances...

[Dabrowski]

ok, I'm trying to write myself little modules to sit on top of CGI, and DBI to automate a lot of my repetetive code.

One of these is a little session thing to time sessions out and store paramters in a DB.

When the module loads it does a 'new CGI::Simple' and checks for a session cookie to do it's stuff.

The problem I have is that in my main program I have another 'new CGI::Simple' for processing my form data.

What's happening is, the CGI Simple in the session module is stealing the POST data, so in my main program I can't get my form data. If I use GET then it's fine, and the content type and length are preserved.

Has anyone used CGI like this before?

[phranque]

you need to have your main program handle the post data and serve it to your session program as requested.
you can have your main program return a CGI or CGI::Simple object to your session module so that you can still use the methods you need...

[Dabrowski]

Shame, I was hoping to make it tidier than that.

Can't I have it automatically output the data back to STDIN somehow?

[chorny]

You need to have only one CGI::Simple object. Just use it from one central module. I do the same with DBI object.

Or caller may transfer CGI::Simple object to subroutine.