Re: mySQL overhead: Tweaking Scripts for Speed

From: "Dan Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> > > While multiple connections will just return the first connection, anyhow, > > why do the extra work, right? > > Yes that was what I was thinking. But I was also thinking that I would > need to global the $link and $db variables and run mysql_query() with > them in options. So I'm wondering how much work coding it will save. > Or will it default to the mysql connection active in the main program? It'll default. You only need to pass $link and $db to mysql_query() and the other functions when you have multiple connections open to multiple databases at the same time (something that is rarely needed). ---John Holmes...