Storing User Preferences
In this section, we’ll write an application, prefs.pl, that uses sessions to manage user profiles. The particular scenario involves management of page-display preferences, although for simplicity we’ll limit the scope of these preferences to a block of text displayed in the pages generated by the application itself. At the end of this section, you’ll find a few suggestions for other ways to use profiles by making a few changes to the concepts presented here.
The script prefs.pl is designed to keep track of page-display preferences stored in a session record: You can select a font size (small, medium, large), and text attributes (bold, italic). It presents a page that shows some sample text displayed using your current ...
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