Re: Help with SSH2 persistent connection in php

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 10:14 -0300, Rodrigo Reis da Rocha wrote: > I want to make an persistent connection via ssh2 to a server with php, but > all I can get with the present API is an temporary connection that is lost > at end of the script. > Anyone have an idea of how I can save the Resource and reuse it on future > scripts instead of having to reconnect over and over again? Hi Rodrigo I recently did a little app that maintained persistent connections to a XMPP server - a similar solution should apply to your problem. I built a memory-resident app in the middle that received a unique ID from my PHP page (you could use session_id for instance), assigned that ID to a connection and created a permanent connection. It also queued incoming messages so that when the PHP script connected again, it could send through the queued messages, so that the end-user didn't miss anything. Initially I tried using PHP-cli for the memory-resident app but eventually settled on Twistd Python because it was better at running resident and handling multiple connections from different users without blocking anything. On the front-end I used PHP and Ajax to give a feeling of a "live" connection. J