Re: Re: synchronizing php functions

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 04:08 AM, Philip MacIver wrote:

The problem is that sessions are local to the clients machine

Huh?

so if I tried to put this information in the session then the only information that I would get back is the people that are logged in on my machine, not the server (Please tell me if I wrong in what I say here). Therefore I need to be able to but this information in the session and have it available to all sessions (sort of like the way static variables in Java belong to the class and not the individual objects that are created from that class). So if you undersatnd what I'm trying to do here and know of a way to do it I would love to here it.

This has been discussed on the list before, and even I think just last week (so check the archives, using "server variables asp" as your search criteria). Some theories suggest that it would entail a lot of overhead, unless you only have a few users to keep track of simultaneously. Possible suggestions are 1) if the data doesn't change, put it into an includefile 2) if the data is dynamic, be clever and implement this yourself with database-managed persistence (but beware the overhead). Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com