Variable persistance between scripts

[Kasper K]

Hi,

I'm using PHP with apache.

From what I understand, global variables are only global to one php
script (i.e. the file and all the files it includes), but they are not
persisted between HTTP calls.

Can you have truly global variables that persist between scripts?

I want the variables to reside in memory and not in i.e. sessions,
cookies, external file, database, post and get.

Thanks

Kasper, Denmark

[Richard Grove]

Re: Variable persistance between scripts

"Kasper K" <kasper@kau.d k> wrote in message
news:14e91d16.0 312160651.3fe88 c12@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP with apache.
>
> From what I understand, global variables are only global to one php
> script (i.e. the file and all the files it includes), but they are not
> persisted between HTTP calls.
>
> Can you have truly global variables that persist between scripts?
>
> I want the variables to reside in memory and not in i.e. sessions,
> cookies, external file, database, post and get.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kasper, Denmark[/color]

There is not another way and why would you want there to be?

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[David Mackenzie]

Re: Variable persistance between scripts

On 16 Dec 2003 06:51:54 -0800, kasper@kau.dk (Kasper K) wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi,
>
>I'm using PHP with apache.
>
>From what I understand, global variables are only global to one php
>script (i.e. the file and all the files it includes), but they are not
>persisted between HTTP calls.
>
>Can you have truly global variables that persist between scripts?
>
>I want the variables to reside in memory and not in i.e. sessions,
>cookies, external file, database, post and get.[/color]

The only way to identify a user across requests is to pass a session
id via POST or GET, or to store it in a cookie.

Sorry, but that's the way it is.

It's not a limitation of PHP, but of HTTP.

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[Kevin Thorpe]

Re: Variable persistance between scripts

Kasper K wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP with apache.
>
> From what I understand, global variables are only global to one php
> script (i.e. the file and all the files it includes), but they are not
> persisted between HTTP calls.
>
> Can you have truly global variables that persist between scripts?
>
> I want the variables to reside in memory and not in i.e. sessions,
> cookies, external file, database, post and get.[/color]

The use of session variables is transparent. They are serialised and
restored between php script executions for you. If you really must have
variables in memory then there is an mm module to use shared memory to
store session vars (*nix only). The only benefit of this though is
performance (at the expense of memory).

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: Variable persistance between scripts

*** Kasper K wrote/escribió (16 Dec 2003 06:51:54 -0800):[color=blue]
> Can you have truly global variables that persist between scripts?[/color]

Nope, apart from cookies, sesssions, get and post. There's a good reason:
without previous systems, there is not way to know what HTTP request belong
to the same logical application and same user session.
[color=blue]
> I want the variables to reside in memory and not in i.e. sessions,
> cookies, external file, database, post and get.[/color]

You probably need a custom webserver for that (that's, for instance, what
webmin uses). It's unlikely it's worth the effort.

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