NAME

Apache2::ASP::ApplicationStateManager - Base class for Application State Managers.

SYNOPSIS

Within your ASP script:

  <%
    $Application->{counter}++;
    $Response->Write("This website has had $Application->{counter} visitors since restart.");
  %>

DESCRIPTION

The global $Application object is an instance of a subclass of Apache2::ASP::ApplicationStateManager.

It is a blessed hash that is persisted within a database. Use it to share information across all requests for all users.

NOTE: - do not store database connections within the $Application object because they cannot be shared across different processes/threads at this time.

METHODS

All methods are overridable, but come with sensible defaults.

new( $asp )

Returns a new Apache2::ASP::ApplicationStateManager object, using $asp.

$asp should be a valid the Apache2::ASP manpage object.

create( )

Creates a new Application. Returns a new Apache2::ASP::ApplicationStateManager object.

retrieve( )

Attempts to retrieve the current Application from the data source specified in the global config.

save( )

Attempts to save the current Application in the data source specified in the global config.

dbh( )

Returns a blessed DBI connection to the data source specified in the global config.

BUGS

It's possible that some bugs have found their way into this release.

Use RT http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html to submit bug reports.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the Apache2::ASP homepage at http://apache2-asp.no-ip.org/ to see examples of Apache2::ASP in action.

AUTHOR

John Drago mailto:jdrago_999@yahoo.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007 John Drago, All rights reserved.

This software is free software. It may be used and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.