Posted by john on 04/29/07 21:42

On Apr 29, 9:48 am, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
> "john" <puop...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1177851382.764835.310600@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > All:
>
> > I have a MS background and am having fun in the open source world of
> > PHP and MySQL --- and I have a question.
>
> > With PHP and MySQL, is it considered better practice to open a single
> > database connection and re-use it throughout the life of the
> > application (simple Web application - low traffic), or is it better to
> > open a connection, use it and close it as needed?
>
> Define "application".
>
> In the context of the stateless http protocol there is no "application".
> There are only individual seperate request to get a specific page at a
> specific URL.
>
> --
> Richard.

My definition of an application in this context is: a set of Web pages
and Web-based, server-side resources that act as a semantic or logical
unit, whose state is tied together for some period of time using a
session-based mechanism.

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