|  | Posted by Mikey on 09/06/05 15:46 
Mikey wrote:
 > bruce wrote:
 >
 >> hi...
 >>
 >> if an app has a webpage that has to interface/display data from a
 >> mysql db,
 >> does the app have to essentially do a new db_connection for each time
 >> that a
 >> user accesses the page during the session.
 >>
 >> as far as i can tell, it does.
 >>
 >> in other words, the page would need to look something like:
 >>
 >>  <?
 >>    start the page
 >>    do the db_connect
 >>    do the db_query
 >>    process the information from the db/tbl
 >>    close the db_connection
 >>  ?>
 >>
 >> the only reason i ask is that it would be nice/good if there was some
 >> way of
 >> opening a connetion once for a given session (save bandwidth) as well as
 >> somehow saving data from the db/tbl (short of using session vars)
 >>
 >> thanks
 >>
 >> -bruce
 >> bedouglas@earthlink.net
 >>
 >>
 >>
 > What you should use is a persistent connection - mysql_pconnect() - IIRC
 >
 > HTH,
 >
 > Mikey
 >
 Ooops, forgot the second part of your question - if you want to save the
 data from a query then you will have to use session vars, although only
 do this with data that you know will not change during the lifetime of a
 user session.
 
 Mikey
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