Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

On 8/14/05, George Schlossnagle <george@omniti.com> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > > > > > >> If apc comes bundled then it includes apc_store() and apc_fetch() > >> this > >> is pretty much $_MEMORY with a few tweaks. > >> > > > > Yes, but that is restricted to one server installations. > > I need such a 'global session' that is available with multiple > > front-end servers..ie. using DB as session storage. > > ext/session has the framework for doing this. I concur with your > original idea of augmenting it to provide those services. Perhaps a > new autoglobal $_GLOBAL_SESSION[]. Thoughts? > > George IIRC, ages ago when I used ASP pages there as an "Application" object which was basically identical to this concept. I seem to recall using it for configuration kinds of thing (db connections, etc). I have resorted to caching for similar needs in PHP, I think $_GLOBAL_SESSION would be welcome addition, perhaps even allowing for customs session handlers similar to the $_SESSION now for multi-processor environments and other unique setup problems. Regards, Jason http://blog.casey-sweat.us/