NAME HTML::StickyQuery - add sticky QUERY_STRING SYNOPSIS use HTML::StickyQuery; # create an object my $s = HTML::StickyQuery->new( regexp => '\.cgi$', abs => 0, keep_original => 1, ); print $s->sticky( file => 'foo.html', param => { SESSIONID => 'xxx' } ); or my $q = CGI->new; print $s->sticky( file => 'foo.html', param => $q, sticky_keys => [qw(SESSIONID)] ); DESCRIPTION this module is a sub class of the HTML::Parser manpage. parse HTML document and add QUERY_STRING to href attributes. Handy for maintaining state without cookie or something, transparently. if you want to use sticky CGI data via FORM. it is better to use the HTML::FillInForm manpage. CONSTRUCTOR new(%option) constructor of HTML::StickyQuery object. the options are below. abs add QUERY_STRING to absolute URI or not. (default: 0) override this option is obsolete. please use keep_original option. keep_original keep original QUERY_STRING or not. (default: 1) when this option is false. all old QUERY_STRING is removed. regexp regular expression of affected URI. (default: *none*) METHODS sticky(%options) parse HTML and add QUERY_STRING. return HTML document. the options are below. file specify the HTML file. scalarref specify the HTML document as scalarref. arrayref specify the HTML document as arrayref. param QUERY_STRING data. as hashref or object which implements *param* method. (eg. CGI, Apache::Request) sticky_keys specify sticky data keys as arrayref. any keys which are not in this list are ignored. if not specified, all keys are kept. EXAMPLES KEEP SESSION ID typical example of CGI application using session. use the Apache::Session>,L Session Test COUNT:

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session.cgi: #!perl use strict; use CGI; use HTML::Template; use HTML::StickyQuery; use Apache::Session::DB_File; my %session; my $cgi = CGI->new; # create session. my $id = $cgi->param('SESSIONID'); tie %session,'Apache::Session::DB_File',$id,{ FileName => './session.db', LockDirectory => './lock' }; $session{count} = $session{count} + 1; my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new(filename => './test.html'); $tmpl->param(count => $session{count}); my $output = $tmpl->output; # no COOKIE print $cgi->header; my $stq = HTML::StickyQuery->new; print $stq->sticky( scalarref => \$output, param => { SESSIONID => $session{_session_id} } ); KEEP SEARCH WORD IN HTML PAGING template file (simplified): Next 20 results search.cgi: #!perl use CGI; use HTML::StickyQuery; use HTML::Template; my $query = CGI->new; my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'search.html'); # do searching with $query and put results into $tmpl # ... # set next page offset $tmpl->param(nextpagee => $query->param('pagenum') + 1); my $output = $tmpl->output; my $sticky = HTML::StickyQuery->new(regexp => qr/search\.cgi$/); print $query->header, $sticky->sticky( scalarref => \$output, param => $qyery, sticky_keys => [qw(search)] ); AUTHOR IKEBE Tomohiro SEE ALSO the HTML::Parser manpage the HTML::FillInForm manpage CREDITS Fixes,Bug Reports. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa COPYRIGHT Copyright(C) 2002 IKEBE Tomohiro All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.