Persisting objects over application lifetime (without serialization)

Hello, is it possible when using PHP5 as an Apache module (with or
without third party products/modules) to persist objects for the
lifetime of the application?

I'm not talking about serializing objects when a request is processed,
then unserializing them in the beginning of the next request - but
rather thread-safe objects that can simultaneously be used by several
requests.

I have been suggested making a PHP script that runs stand-alone,
listening on TCP/IP for local requests from the Apache web scripts.
While this absolutely is a feasible solution, I was hoping the same
could be accomplished without the use of having a stand-alone script
(which basically means another server process to watch and monitor).



Regards,
Nils Magnus

Re: Persisting objects over application lifetime (without serialization)

Nils Magnus wrote:
> Hello, is it possible when using PHP5 as an Apache module (with or
> without third party products/modules) to persist objects for the
> lifetime of the application?
>
> I'm not talking about serializing objects when a request is processed,
> then unserializing them in the beginning of the next request - but
> rather thread-safe objects that can simultaneously be used by several
> requests.
>
> I have been suggested making a PHP script that runs stand-alone,
> listening on TCP/IP for local requests from the Apache web scripts.
> While this absolutely is a feasible solution, I was hoping the same
> could be accomplished without the use of having a stand-alone script
> (which basically means another server process to watch and monitor).
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Nils Magnus
>
>

Sorry, there isn't anything built in to do what you want. You should be
able to implement something in shared memory, however. You would have
to implement your own mechanism to make them thread safe.

Which gets to the real question - what are you trying to accomplish?
Maybe there are better ways.

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