Question on $GLOBALS

[Bastien]

Hi All,

Quick q on $GLOBALS and it limitations.

Is this superglobal array analogous to the Application Level Variables in ASP?

The idea here is to set a group of system definitions (screen colors, custom label names etc) for a client on our website. I want the first user to access the site to assign those variables (all coming from a db) and let all subsequent users have access to those values as set by that first user.

Can the $GLOBALS array handle this? Or is there another, better way? I am simply trying to avoid the overhead of having to call it once for each user when creating the session...

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[sleipnir214]

If I understand ASP application-level variables, those are a set of values which are set once and made available to all the scripts of an application. A common dictionary of configuration values, as it were.

PHP does not have anything like that.

You can, however, simulate something like that. You can, for example, write a script which sets all the configuration values and have every script include that script.

The dictionary-creating PHP script can be run automatically for a directory or a site using auto_prepend_file.


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[Bastien]

Would that be less or more intensive than creating it as a session object?

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[sleipnir214]

A set of values in a session store can only be used by one user. I thought you wanted these values to be available to multiple users.


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