Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

From:	George Schlossnagle	Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:48:24 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
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On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:29 AM, Jani Taskinen wrote:

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, George Schlossnagle 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?
<?php
    <the usual pre-session_start() things here..>
    session_set_application_id('someid');

Why shouldn't this be implicit (and bound to a userid under safe mode). i.e. what's the point of having an application id? George