making fsockopen variable global

[manuitpro]

I am using class and and connection variable $this->_connection = @fsockopen($thi s->_hostname, 23, $errno, $errstr, $this->_timeout), class has other variables also. class object is global, and when i use this object in another page i am getting all other variable values except $this->connection, it is restting to zero.

How do i make this value as global.

Thanks

[kovik]

My experience with sockets is limited, but if you want it to persist across page requests, I would assume saving the resource into the SESSION would work until you have closed the socket. However, PHP may automatically close it after the script completes. Let me know how it goes.

If you just want it to be accessible through other pages with a limited scope (i.e. pages included via a function call), then just use the keyword global when the resource is created, and in the file that you need it in.

// Main file
function buildPage($page) {
    include $page;
}

global $data = "...";
buildPage('some_file.php');

// Included file
global $data; // This file now has access to $data