Extending PHP

[lfcamera]

When using dl("mymodule.so") or include the line:
extension=mymodule.so in php.ini

I have noticed that the modules are being loaded every time the user goes to a new html-page. Since my program (written in C using malloc) has some data stored it will be lost.

I wonder if I make a built-in module and recompile PHP if the data stored in the module will be lost?

Marcus

[Anon]

I think that your data will be lost but you can use shared memory
if you want to store some data.

Zend recommends use emalloc and efree function.

Do you use classes in your Zend extension?

Audrus

[lfcamera]

I don't use classes in my extension.

What do you mean by using shared memory?

Marcus

[Anon]

If you work under Unix you can use shared memory. PHP now has
the function what can be used for storing needed data in shared memory.

Audrus

[lfcamera]

The thing is that I am making a .so file where the user can call several functions and store some data when calling theese functions. I don't want that the user has to make any extra PHP-coding exempt calling my functions. Is this impossible?

The data stored in the functions has to be read from different html-sites.

Marcus