object lifetime?

[sgalonska]

Hello,

before I started with PHP, I was using Java. So I am asking myself if it is really necessary to create all objects I need every time when my .php - page is called. Can't I keep some objects in shared memory e.g. by binding them to a session? I remember that this could be very handy when multiple users need the same objects, especially in connection with database access. Has anyone had some experience with doing stuff like that? I would be quite thankful for every advice ;-).

Sebastian

[notionlogic]

I've done this fairly successfully by serializing an object in one page and putting it in a session variable. On the next page you can create a new instance of the same class and populate it with the data from the session variable (after unserializing of couse!)

This might help you but I haven't read it fully myself...http://www.php.net/manual/sk/language.oop.serialization.php

However if you're talking about using this for DB connections then I wouldn't know - far too risky in my book and anyway there's always persistent connections (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-pconnect.php) !