Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: Are application wide variables possiblewith PHP4?
| From: | Chris Adams | Date: | Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:19:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: Are application wide variables possiblewith PHP4? | ||
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:54:54 -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote:
>At 12:09 PM 3/2/00, you wrote:
> > > How about just using include files? It may be a bit more work for the
> > > server to have to keep reading-writing out files, but it'd probably work
> > > just as well.
> >
> > Probably not. Imagine one server process (or more) process(es) trying to
> > update variables with other processes simultaneously reading the file?
>
>OK, point accepted. How about databases then?
Concurrent access from multiple users/processes was one of the reasons why
databases were developed in the first place. With a decent database, a
frequently accessed row should load pretty quickly, too.