Re: Server-Wide Persistent objects in PHP?

Hi George, I'd be interested in this - no budget for the Zend one, but I'd like the APC one - do you or anyone have any practical experience of this in production environments (>1.5m hits/week)? (or any [independent] URLs or reviews) Thanks, -- Shane On Monday 26 Nov 2001 5:22 pm, George Schlossnagle wrote: > If you use a caching extension like APC (http://apc.communityconnect.com) > or Zend Cache/Accelerator you get 1 and 2 below. APC at least implements > basically what your looking for, I thnk. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yermo M. Lamers" <yml@yml.com> > To: "Markus Fischer" <mfischer@guru.josefine.at> > Cc: "Andrey Hristov" <ahristov@icygen.com>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:30 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Server-Wide Persistent objects in PHP? > > > Markus, > > > > Yea, that's the problem. In my application, just loading the class files > > on each page adds quite a bit of overhead. (1000's of lines of code). > > > > I've taken a look through the PHP/Zend source and it looks to me like it > > would be possible to create a module built around a modified version of > > php_execute_script() that: > > > > 1. loads, compiles and executes a script. > > > > 2. saves the state of the global tables Zend uses to > > manage class definitions, objects, functions, variables, etc > > (since there are so many globals used in Zend it doesn't look > > like you can instantiate a second instance of the PHP interpreter > > inside a single process, correct?) > > > > 3. exports some function calls to PHP that would allow object > > instances (and their corresponding class definitions) to be imported into > > the local name space. > > > > Ideally I'd set the module up so that all these classes and instantiation > > happen in the php.ini file at server start time. Now wouldn't that be > > cool? > > > > The question I have is what other hooks are there inside PHP that would > > prevent this from working? Can I copy a pre-built symbol table (and class > > definition table, etc) that I saved from a previous run of the PHP > > interpreter (on a previous page) into a new one without having it crash? > > > > thanks, > > > > -- Yermo > > > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:18:23PM -0500, Yermo M. Lamers wrote : > > > > Question for you, when you serialize to a file do the class > > definitions > > > > > get serialized along with it or do you have to pre-load your classes > > > > before you can unserialize? (that seems to be the way it works but I > > may > > > > > be mistaken). > > > > > > Class definition is not safed. > > > > > > - Markus > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > DTLink Software info@dtlink.com > > Software Development and Consulting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > > 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