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Posted by Dave (from the UK) on 05/20/06 20:22
Sorry about the multiple posting.
I was looking on alt.php for my reply to Chris, but found it did not
appear. So I tried again, and then realised he had put a followup to
uk.net.web.authoring. Not sure why really, as it seems quite relavant to
a php newgroup, so I have posted back there this time!
I can see the point of changing the followup if a message is sent to an
inappropiate group, but I don't feel it was in this case.
> If you need it to persist across multiple pages, use PHP's sessions
I don't need that.
> If you don't, then just store it in memory unless it's incredibly large.
> Or do you need a physical temporary file for some reason? If so, why?
>
In principle memory would do, but I've not had a lot of luck with it. I
am using an external program and that is reading from a file.
someprog -batchinput < /tmp/foo -batchoutput > /tmp/results
When that reads from a pipe, the program behaves a little differently
and a bit of an inconsistent way.
I assume I can do something with a random number or time to get a unique
name.
In a shell script, I could do /tmp/foo.$$ and know that $$ will be the
PID which will be unique. I would have thought php would have supported
something like that.
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