Can't you hack this together today in PHP?
You just need runkit to register the superglobal.
--Wez.
On 11/25/05, Sara Golemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, but PHP could provide a standardized frontend in the form of a
> > super-global that can have modular backends (like we have with
> > ext/session). One backend could then use memcached as its data store.
> >
> Funny, I've been thinking of just the same thing.... The PHP5 OOP hooks are
> just begging for that sort of implementation.
>
> $foo = $_APPLICTION['bar'];
>
> php_application_object::read_dimension(zval *element) {
> zval *baz = fetch_from_storage_mechanism(element);
> return baz;
> }
>
> Things like references could never be supported of course. And the
> userspace code would have to be intelligent enough to handle its own race
> conditions. (The SHM backend would cover mutexes of course, but that still
> doesn't solve the simpler problem of different requests handling different
> bundles of data)
>
> Is anyone working on something like this already?
>
> -Sara
>
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