PHP Language - How to share a variable between browser sessions

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How to share a variable between browser sessions

Ikke

2005-02-15, 8:56 pm

I have to share a variable between browser sessions.
One session for example changes the variable, the other sessions must
see the changes (get the new value instead of the original value)
it's not allowed to save the value in a database or to save it into a
file. It must be a kind of global server variable, changeable by every
session.

tia

tintub@gmail.com

2005-02-15, 8:56 pm

You could use an environment variable ($_ENV['foobar'])

Ikke wrote:
> I have to share a variable between browser sessions.
> One session for example changes the variable, the other sessions must

> see the changes (get the new value instead of the original value)
> it's not allowed to save the value in a database or to save it into a

> file. It must be a kind of global server variable, changeable by
every
> session.
>
> tia

Chris Hope

2005-02-15, 8:56 pm

tintub@gmail.com wrote:

> Ikke wrote:

There are shared memory functions in PHP which may be able to accomplish
what you are after: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php

But other than that (if the above functions do not work) you can't do
this without saving it into some sort of state file or database table.
Is there any reason you don't want to do this? The problem with non
persistant data that is only stored in memory is that if the web
service or server is restarted then you're going to lose whatever the
current value is.
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> You could use an environment variable ($_ENV['foobar'])

That wouldn't hold from page to page. Whatever you set in $_ENV will
only last for the duration that the page is parsed.

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Deniz Adrian

2005-02-16, 8:57 am

hi tia,

if i got you right, you want to write data from session into another.
The gap there is you will have to know the session-id from each session.
if you know them, you can accomplish the task with the following code:

<?php

// SESSION-ID of the session to write in is in $newSessId;

// Save data from current Session
session_write_close();

$oldSessId= session_id($newSessId);

// Change to new Session
session_start();

// Delete/Alter data into Session
unset($_SESSION['unsetvar']);
$_SESSION['altervar']="newvalue";

// Save changes into Session
session_write_close();

// Switch back to previous session
session_id($oldSessId);
session_start();

?>

best regards
deniz adrian

Ikke wrote:
> I have to share a variable between browser sessions.
> One session for example changes the variable, the other sessions must
> see the changes (get the new value instead of the original value)
> it's not allowed to save the value in a database or to save it into a
> file. It must be a kind of global server variable, changeable by every
> session.
>
> tia

Yevgen Varavva

2005-02-16, 8:57 am

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>I have to share a variable between browser sessions.
> One session for example changes the variable, the other sessions must see
> the changes (get the new value instead of the original value)
> it's not allowed to save the value in a database or to save it into a
> file. It must be a kind of global server variable, changeable by every
> session.
>
> tia

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Ikke

2005-02-16, 3:57 pm

thanks for your inputs.
I've solved it with shared memory.
shmop (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php)

greetings

Ikke

2005-02-21, 3:57 pm

thanks for your inputs.
I've solved it with shared memory.
shmop (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php)

greetings

Yevgen Varavva

2005-02-21, 3:57 pm

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