Maintaining PHP session in PERL

[lamp]

We are developing an application which will interact with another php application.
There we need to maintain the session of php application in our perl application.
From cpan.org, i got information about PHP::Session which is used
to maintain Perl application session shared with PHP.
Can anybody share some information on this module and other implementation options?

Thanks.

[dpavlin]

It's quite simple:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use PHP::Session;
use CGI::Lite;
use Data::Dumper;
my $session_name = 'PHPSESSID'; # change this if needed

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

my $cgi = new CGI::Lite;

my $cookies = $cgi->parse_cookies;
if ($cookies->{$session_name}) {
   my $session = PHP::Session->new($cookies->{$session_name});
   # now, try to dump _s_pod variable from session
   print "_s_pod:",Dumper($session->get('_s_pod'));
} else {
   print "can't find session cookie $session_name";
}

Disclamer: I'm still not using PHP::Session in production, but this seem to work good enough for me.
Hum, should this example should go into module documentation?