oh I got it to work for the most part, there seemed to be alot of little things I was misses took some trial and error but I got it heres the code just incase someone might need it.
use CGI;
use CGI::Session;
use strict;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header( "text/html" );
#--------------------------------------#
#------------- Variables --------------#
#--------------------------------------#
my %valueHash;
my %newHash;
GrabParams();
my $session;
my $SID;
#--------------------------------------#
#---- New/Open Session Condition ------#
#--------------------------------------#
if ($valueHash{"sessPass"} == 1) {
$session = new CGI::Session(undef, undef, {Directory=>'tmp/ses
+sions'}) or die CGI::Session->errstr; #--> creates a CGI::Session Obj
+ect for use
$SID = $session->id;
}else{
$session = new CGI::Session(undef, $valueHash{"session"}, {Dir
+ectory=>'tmp/sessions'}) or die CGI::Session->errstr; #--> Open sessi
+on
my %newHash = %{$session->param('valueHash')}; #--> load sessi
+on hash and save it into a new hash (had to derefference it first wit
+h %{})
#--> Loop through the load hash and push the values into value
+Hash
#--> so the new and old parameters are in one hash
#-------------------------------------------------------------
+------>
while (my($k, $v) = each(%newHash)) {
$valueHash{$k} = $v;
printf("<br>key: %s value: %s", $k, $v);
}
#--> After loading session variables and setting them to the n
+ew variables in valueHash
#--> we need to clear the session hash values so we can rewrit
+e the new values
#-------------------------------------------------------------
+-------------------------->
$session->clear();
}
$session->param('valueHash', \%valueHash);
$session->flush();
#--------------------------------------#
#------------ Functions ---------------#
#--------------------------------------#
sub GrabParams{
my ( $paramName, $paramValue);
foreach $paramName ($q->param) {
foreach $paramValue ($q->param( $paramName )) {
$valueHash{ $paramName } = pack 'U0A*', $paramValue;
}
}
}
thanks for everyones help for pointing me in the right direction.