Re: shared memory: shm_has_var

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Derick Rethans wrote: > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > > > Maybe a fix would be to have some sort of web-server-level shared memory > > support as well. Most people don't need the OS-level stuff anyway for > > programs outside of the PHP engine; they just need something that can survive > > execution of the script. > > This whole extension was made by the authors to communicate between PHP > and > other applications. And for the web-server-level we already have > sessions. > > Just my 2c > Not quite. Sessions aren't web-server-level, they're web-client-level. They store data on a per-browser basis. I'm talking about data structures shared between PHP scripts such as, e.g., HTML templates. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>