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Re: Persistant connections. You are calling mysql_pconnect on each page load right? If not, I believe that mysql_pconnect will cause php to close the socket after the page has finished loading. (unless another client has that socket open). I could be wrong, but the main purpose of pconnect is so there are as few active connections open to mysql at the same time as possible. and on a side note: You can't keep a mysql connection in a cookie.