Persistant array held in memory between connections

[Azu]

Can someone please tell me if there is there some kind of plugin for PHP that will let me have a persistent array that will stay in memory even after the php process dies, and that all PHP processes will be able to access? Like some kind of $_SuperDuperImmortalGlobal['InterPHP'] that only goes away when the web server closes? And if there is, does it work with fastcgi? I don't care if it's free or not as long as it has good performance. Better performance then calling a database memory table over and over.

[rhyspaterson]

I'm pretty new to everything, but isn't that what sessions are for?

[Azu]

I'm pretty sure session cookies only work for one computer that is connecting, and even then will only work if the client accepts session works, and thus they are client-side..

[Diego17]

I understand only a large number is stored client side to identify the session. All other data is stored server-side.

Otherwise

session.save_path  string

 

    session.save_path defines the argument which is passed to the save handler. If you choose the default files handler, this is the path where the files are created. Defaults to /tmp

doesn't make sense.

[Azu]

Thanks I am looking for an entirely server side solution that won't be specific to a single client connection though :s

This will be often accessed directly by another PHP process without any client, and will also be accessed by some other computers, and it is important that the data won't be specific to a single connection.. sorry if I'm not making sense I'm really sleepy.. x_x

[trq]

You'd need to either store your values in a database or flatfile.

[Azu]

Basically I'm looking for something like http://www.danga.com/memcached/ but one that doesn't need PEAR/PECL.