Re: [Package Proposal] PHP_Application_Vars

I'm against using $_SESSION for this. It has some serious drawbacks, some of them already mentioned, others are: Only one script can use the same session at a time. If you use the same session throughout your application, that means you have only script running at a time - no concurrent requests anymore, which makes your application slow. Also, the syntactic sugar using $_SESSION is not really neccessary, because functions and class functions are also available everywhere. IMO, if Application vars are implemented, they should be accessed through (class) functions. You could have seperate classes for application variables using files, shared memory, databases, ... using the same API providing (at least) methods to get and set variables and beginning, commiting or reverting transactions. -- Regards, Stefan Walk <swalk@prp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>