There would be 10s of ways of doing this I assume... depends on which technologies and resources you have access to. Jochem Mass said: >firstly this goes against the basic principle of 'SHARE NOTHING' that >php is based on - so I doubt that the basic php environment will be >changed to accomodate such a feature any time soon. I kindda agree with you Jochem! that's one of the reasons where PHP beats others in performance. Richard Lynch said: >Just throw them in a database. >It's a 10-line two-function PHP script you can write in 10 minutes. >Why would you want somebody else to do that for you? ?! I don't understand you Richard? :s How's that related? or maybe you have a server farm fired with Oracle and 100 web servers all running in a load balance loop. This is about a huge application that was discussed dealing with huge data structures... I don't know if you read the previous posts. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:20:55 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > M Saleh EG wrote: > > What I mean by Application-Scope variables is variables that can be > > available for the Application or Web-Application all the time after > > starting the application by a trigger. After having the triger fired > > those Application-Scope Variables, Datastructures, Object, and > > refrences would be available for all the requests. That's how I'd > > equate persistant PHP-Applications to having Application-Scope PHP > > variables. > > > > A lame Example to illustrate the purpose of Application-Scope > > variables would be the persistant DB connections. Not 100% the same > > but it's for the same purpose > > > > So if you could have a huge object persistant( Application-Scope > > object ) that does alot of work for you then that object is a PHP > > persistant application which I call Application-Scope var or object ! > > > > Hope that clears it out. > > For single-server multi-threaded architectures this is trivial to do, > but it doesn't scale to the multi-server multi-process architecture PHP > uses. > > -Rasmus > -- M.Saleh.E.G 97150-4779817 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
