NAME
   CGI::Session::ODBC - ODBC driver for CGI::Session

VERSION
       Version 0.50

SYNOPSIS
       use CGI::Session;
       $session = new CGI::Session("driver:ODBC", undef, { Handle => $dbh });

   For more examples, consult the CGI::Session manual.

DESCRIPTION
   CGI::Session::ODBC is a CGI::Session driver to store session data in any
   ODBC-capable database. To write your own drivers for "CGI::Session",
   please refer to the CGI::Session manual.

USAGE
   To store session data in the ODBC-compliant database, you must first
   create a suitable table for your session data to live. In many
   instances, the following SQL will accomplish this:

       CREATE TABLE sessions (
           id CHAR(32) NOT NULL,
           a_session TEXT NOT NULL
       );

   You can add any number of additional columns to the table, but the
   columns "id" and "a_session" are required as defined above. If you want
   to store the session data in a table other than "sessions", you will
   also need to specify the TableName attribute as an argument:

       use CGI::Session;

       $session = new CGI::Session("driver:ODBC", undef,
           { Handle => $dbh, TableName => 'my_sessions' });

   There are no special provisions made for row-level locking. ODBC is
   intended to be platform independent, and to the best of the author's
   knowledge at the time of this writing, there is no platform independent
   manner of implementing row locking. Please contact the author with your
   experiences with this module in that regard.

SEE ALSO
   *   CGI::Session - CGI::Session manual

   *   CGI::Session::Tutorial - extended CGI::Session manual

   *   CGI::Session::CookBook - practical solutions for real life problems

   *   "RFC 2965" - "HTTP State Management Mechanism" found at
       ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2965.txt

   *   CGI - standard CGI library

   *   Apache::Session - another fine alternative to CGI::Session

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (C) 2003-2004 by Jason A. Crome. All rights reserved.

   This library is free software and can be modified and distributed under
   the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
   Jason A. Crome "<[email protected]>".

CREDITS
   This module is directly based on CGI::Session::PostgreSQL by Cosimo
   Streppone, and indirectly based on CGI::Session::MySQL module by Sherzod
   Ruzmetov.

   Many thanks to Rhesa Rozendaal for the placeholder patch.