>> So if what your application mostly does is load in all this data and >> respond to requests, you could write a *SINGLE* PHP application which >> listened on port 12345 (or whatever port you like) and responded with >> the >> data requested. Like writing your own web-server, only it's a >> _________-server where you get to fill in the blank with whatever your >> application does. > > Please see my repsonse to Manuel Lemos and his suggestion to run a SOAP > server. Basically my concern is the lack of having a > multi-process/forking server to handle concurrent incoming requests > (which may or may not be a problem - not sure). We're talking about a > persistent PHP server (SOAP or otherwise), and I'm having trouble > groking how that would work in an environment with many concurrent > requests. (Other than, of course, running a PHP SOAP server inside > Apache which brings me back to square one :) [shrug] In my Dream World, you could run as many "%> php -q wyw_server.php" processes as you like, and the low-level socket code would take care of only having one of them respond to any given request. Assuming that's not Reality Based, I guess you could try to figure out how Apache does its pre-fork and child management... Ya know, Rasmus' answer of just making your own PHP Module is looking REAL GOOD right now... You'll have to stumble your way through a LITTLE bit of C -- most of which is going to be copy&paste from his example code (http://talks.php.net) And then you're going to copy&paste your monster array into your new C code. Then you'll have to change every line with $foo to just have foo, and declare foo correctly, and segregate all your data/arrays so all the arrays have only one kind of data in them, and... It's going to be confusing as hell at first, but do it with a very SMALL version of your monster array, and after you get the hang of that, it will be a lot of global Search&Replace to make your big array work. Or you could pay a guy who knows C and PHP to do it in, what, a couple hours? Depends on how confusing your arrays are, and how heterogeneous they are, I guess. Once you do that, all your data is in PHP/Apache when it launches, and it's always available to your PHP script all the time. Sweet. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
