Re: persistent storage in PHP

On Wed, 07 May 2003 18:34:06 -0400, you wrote: > >How do I cache data persistently across page calls? As near as I can tell all >the variable scopes in PHP terminate at the end of a page and the next page >starts with a clean slate. > >Surely that's not 100% true and there's some way to store data that will be >available on the next invocation? Perhaps there's some external shared library >solution that stores data conveniently? Take a look at the shared memory functions (shmop_open, shmop_read, shmop_close, etc.). I have no experience with them myself, but it looks like with a little effort you could get the functionality you want from them: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php