Re: How to argue with ASP people...

Ya.. I just had an argument with my collegue (who is ASP programmer). He said that in ASP he can use a global variable to store the counter and then when the IIS is shutting down he can grab that event and dump the counter variable to a text file. I just betted him that i can also do that with PHP. /sagar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> To: "Sagar C Nannapaneni" <sagar@rythumithra.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] How to argue with ASP people... > --- Sagar C Nannapaneni <sagar@rythumithra.com> wrote: > > But just 2 days ago i came along a situation where i have to > > write a hit counter for my website without using a database > > or a text file. Just using a global variable i wanted to do > > this. > > > > I dont know whether php can do this...(or may b i missed it > > out)...but i couldnt get any equivalent thing in php like we > > have GLOBAL.ASA in ASP. > > If GLOBAL.ASA isn't considered a text file, then you can probably use > SQLite. Just don't call it a database. :-) > > What sort of situation did you encounter where you were required to > persist data without the two primary means of doing so? You can persist > data in memory, I guess, depending on how permanent you need this to be - > your hit counter would be reset when the server reboots. It could be like > the high scores on an arcade machine. :-) > > Chris > > ===== > Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ > > PHP Security - O'Reilly HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams > Coming Soon http://httphandbook.org/ > >