Re: Re: php feature

On 4/13/07, Oliver Block <lists@block-online.eu> wrote:

Am Freitag, 13. April 2007 15:46 schrieb Tijnema !: I think that will screw up some things, for example when using 2 the same scripts, on the same apache, but on different locations. It does not screw up things with session variables. The difference between session variables and application variables (I would say) is the scope. (Both are persistent between several requests.) There are ways to assure that requests are served by the same machine if sessions are used (load balancers). There is also the way to set up a central storage like you already can do with session_set_save_handler(). Especially because a lot people use shared hosting these days, and that means that they all run on the same apache. and so they would share the same "application variables". So if person a & b both install the same script on a different domain. They would work like 1 script, and that just goes wrong. We two obviously have a different concept of application variable. As I understand it, you would never share applications variables between different domains (without the php programmer knowing that). But you are right, if you i.e. run a web application on a shared host, you could have a single directory served by several different subdomains, e.g. webapp.mydomain1.com, webapp.mydomain2.com, webapp.mydomain3.com with all domains mapped to the directory htdocs/webapp. But the programmer of the applicaton would have to consider this, not php.

But once it is available. "stupid" PHP programmers are gonna use it, and distribute code using it, and while someone else, who doesn't know anything about PHP, installs it twice on same host, it does give a lot trouble.

But as I said earlier, I was more interested in knowing the rationale why this feature hasn't been integrated yet, than in demanding it.:) (Right now I have no patch, either.) Best Regards, Oliver I think it would only give more trouble... and like noted before, it's

a lot of work to integrate it in all apache workers... (not to mention PHP as CGI...) Tijnema