Re: Global variables in extensions

Ah, no, it's not necessary. I thought you were talking about a dynamic extension. What exactly isn't working? Is something that you're storing in a static/global variable not retained by the time of the next request? A couple of things that are worth mentioning: - You can only set the values for global/static variables during the initial startup (minit). - Changes you make to these values afterwards will only be retained in the context of a single process, because the static/global variables are only global process-wide, whereas Apache has many simultaneous processes. My guess is that you probably considered global variables to be more global than they really are (i.e., across processes). In order to have variables that are shared among all Apache processes, you're going to have to use shared memory or some other type of persistent shared storage. Zeev At 13:16 30/3/2001, Thomas Wentzel wrote:

Hi Zeev, My extension is compiled _into_ php which is loaded as a module in apache! I'm not using the php.ini file at the moment - is it really necessary? Thomas Zeev Suraski wrote: How are you loading your extension? If you're using dl(), forget about retaining any type of information in between requests... You must use extension= in php.ini Zeev At 11:58 30/3/2001, Thomas Wentzel wrote:

Hi! I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I need to allocate some memory that will be available throughout a session. Firstly a database connection is established, but at the same time I read all relevant information about the db (records, attributes, typedeclarations and such and such). This is a rather lengthy process so I am trying to store these information in memory for later retrieval. This is the part, that doesn't work. Whenever a new page is loaded the information is lost. I have tried using static (global) variables, and I have tried the ZEND_BEGIN/END_MODULE_GLOBALS. About the ZEND_BEGIN/END... approach: the std. skeleton defines these macros: #ifdef ZTS

        #define RAIMAG(v) (raima_globals->v)
        #define RAIMALS_FETCH() php_raima_globals

*raima_globals=ts_resource(raima_globals_id) #else

        #define RAIMAG(v) (raima_globals.v)
        #define RAIMALS_FETCH()

#endif How do I utilize ZTS? Where is raima_globals_id defined? I do set a variable in PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION that variable is always set! But any other variables from the ZEND_BEGIN/END_MODULE_GLOBALS section (phew) that is set later do not remember their value??? Why is that? Thanks Thomas -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

-- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/

-- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/