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 Posted by Andy Hassall on 09/14/05 21:55 
On 14 Sep 2005 06:14:12 -0700, "Nils Bandener" <nils.netz@applion.net> wrote: 
 
>Sandman wrote: 
> 
>> I recommend doing a persistent connection to MySQL outside this function. This 
>> way, you're making one new MySQL connection for every time the function is run. 
>> If this is the only function that ever use MySQL, it's no big deal, but if it 
>> isn't. 
>> 
>> Lookup mysql_pconnect 
> 
>mysql_pconnect() could cause a couple of other problems, because it 
>keeps the connection open *after* the HTTP request has been finished. 
>See: 
> 
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-connections.php 
> 
>Better use the normal connect and cache the connection for re-use. For 
>example this way: 
> 
>function makeDatabaseConnection() 
>{ 
>  static $link; 
> 
>  if (!isset($link)) 
>  { 
>    $link = mysql_connect(...); 
>  } 
>} 
> 
>With subsequent mysql calls you don't even have to know the connection 
>because the mysql functions will automatically use the last established 
>connection. 
 
 If you don't call mysql_close(), you're already using only one MySQL 
connection throughout the life of the request anyway, no matter how many times 
you call mysql_connect. 
 
 http://uk.php.net/mysql_connect 
 
" If a second call is made to mysql_connect()  with the same arguments, no new 
link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of the already 
opened link will be returned." 
 
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Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk 
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