Application variables add a significant amount of scaling problems. But they're not exactly a database either.
There's a lot of ways to do IPC in PHP; .. the SRM for one, or transient storage like memcache can also store app variables without needing a persistent storage mechanism like a database. K ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Karwin To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:56 PM Subject: RE: [fw-general] ZF Application Variables? They call that a "database". Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Sleight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From the article I posted: "Application variables in ASP work very similar to the $_SESSION variable in PHP. However, unlike the $_SESSION variable, application variables are not specific to an individual user; they persist across every user of every page on the web site."
