2 users access a script simultaneously?

[Anon]

I am trying to write a chat room using frames and flush()..... the problem I am having is that only one person can be in the room at a time? Other people just get the hourglass until the person in that chat navigates to another page or presses stop...

Any ideas? Running PHP4 on Windows with PWS 4

[Anon]

You need to say more, and probably show some sample source.
Is the deadlock perhaps related to shared access to a file/database,
for example?

[Anon]

The script loops forever, and has the form:

Pseudocode of course:

Loop Forever{
Get some info from database;
Print that info;
Sleep(5);
}

The problem seems to be that because this script doesn't "end" -- php will not let somebody else run it. Does PHP queue requests for a script?

Sorry, I am somewhat new to this, and am trying to make some sense out of it.

[Anon]

Maybe this is a problem with PWS, but even considering what it
is, that's hard to believe. Surely under apache with mod_php
each connection is handled by a complete separate instance
of httpd, and no, there's absolutely nothing internal to PHP
that keeps the same script from being run by any number of
connections at the same time.