Stut What's good for multiple webservers? thanks -----Original Message----- From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:31 PM To: Stefano Esposito Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: MySQL and SESSIONs Stefano Esposito wrote: > is it somehow possible to store the connection reference obtained from mysql_connect() (note the absence of the "i") in a $_SESSION element? No. Why would you want to? You'd end up holding on to a database connection even when nothing is using it. If you want to optimise things look at http://php.net/mysql_pconnect but bear in mind that this starts to suck if you scale up to multiple web servers. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php