Re: Re: Statics and PHP5

Hello Dave, seems like you misunderstood the basic concept of PHP - it is stateless. That means that no information is propagated from one script execution to another - or in other words we have neitehr an application server nor persistent variables. regards marcus Monday, February 16, 2004, 7:13:17 PM, you wrote: > Hi all, > My initial response to Jonathan has me thinking more > about this, and a higher level. I guess I want to hear > from the Zend guys about their intentions of PHP as an > app server. IMHO, that's the right direction. > For example, when PHP is loaded by the web server, > it's only loaded once, and it should keep track of all > the classes that get loaded, and only load them once > (unless the file changes, say). Static variables > should apply to the server scope (classloader). The > way it stands right now, if all the classes are > essential unloaded after each request, then we're > still really close to the CGI paradigm. If I have > 10,000 users who each use 10 pages per session, why do > I need to load the "Foo" class 100,000 times? > Zend guys, what are your thoughts? Was this concept > considered and rejected? Your thought process and > direction are important to my technology choice. > Thanks, > Dave > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net