application vars with php

easy with cf, also with php?

[the_nerd]

I didn't find a solution, so I thought, let's ask the experts ....

I'd like to create a couple of objects (language stuff, for example) - that should be valid for all sessions - so I don't have to waste space and power to create those objects for every new session.

Does anybody know how to make variables available to all sessions?

Thanks a lot,

nerd.

[jatar_k]

load them into memory

you could do this with apache start up scripts, we had some scripts that did this but I don't believe I have copies and it's been a while.

[the_nerd]

thanks, jater_k,

but that sounds rather static. I'd like to be able read and write (and lock) those "application vars" during runtime. Sounds like this concept has no equivalent in php?

nerd

[Nutter]

What about storing them in a temp file and then updating that file as they change?

[jatar_k]

just use an included file then as Nutter said

[the_nerd]

just use an included file then as Nutter said

but then I could read them as well directly from the database.

The idea was to have some kind of cached queries in memory. (For example 10000 strings from a language table that then can be accessed in array form)

[Nutter]

Wouldn't this work?

$myvariable['login']="Please enter your login";
$myvariable['logout']="Later";
$myvariable['welcome']="Welcome to my super site";
....and so on....

[the_nerd]

hi nutter,

this would work, of course.

But If I had

langtext [1] = "hi";
langtext [2] = "friend";
...
langtext [100000] = "the end";

wouldn't it be way too "expensive" to initialize and keep this array for every session or even every request if there's no session started?