Re: Anyone wrote persistent variable extension?

>> $_PERSISTENT could store data key'd to the script that stored it. >> $_PERSISTENT_GLOBAL (probably a better name can be found) could just >> store data accessable to any script under a certain document root. You >> definitly do not want to share persistent data across document roots (ie >> virtual servers, etc.). > > Using docroot sounds good idea. I'll think about design and > post new RFC next week. > Here's another idea that I've floated the last couple weeks (this would be especially good in the SRM and msession extensions), how about a method to cache values? This is very similar to the "application variables", except that there would be a limit to how much was stored, and if that limit was reached, the most infrequently used data would be discarded. Right now I've got some lookups I have to do fairly often for country, state/province, city of users. There are over 2 million cities in my database, but the vast majority of them aren't used. I would like to be able to store the most frequently used data in a persistent manner, but there's really not the option of storing everything. So if it wasn't in the persistent variable, I would look it up in the database, and then put it into the persistent variable. The caching mechanism would then delete a value if necessary, e.g. the least recently used. Just an idea, and I'd be glad to offer my meager skills in helping out with that.