Posted by Andy Hassall on 09/30/05 22:42

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:04:14 +0000 (UTC), "C16" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>Another newbie question. I have a small website working via php and all is
>fine, but I wanted to add some new features and was wondering if php allows
>for variables to be seen by multiple sessions, ie a user viewing the web
>site on one machine can see variables created by another users session. Is
>that what $_SERVER[] is for, or am I going to be better of creating a single
>entry table in mySQL that has a field for each global variable?

$_SERVER does not do this; it contains various bits of request information,
but does not persist between requests.

A database would be an appropriate choice for this.
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