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[nycphp-talk] When to close a mysql connection

Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) ben at projectskyline.com
Thu Jun 28 16:43:01 EDT 2007


Hello,

Doesn't using pconnect take care of this?
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-pconnect.php

What's the best implementation?(provide some source if you can...)

- Ben

Ben Sgro, Chief Engineer
ProjectSkyLine - Defining New Horizons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jakob Buchgraber" <jakob.buchgraber at googlemail.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] When to close a mysql connection


> David Krings wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Up until now I always opened a db connection to MySQL, did my query stuff 
>> and then closed the connection again, went on to the next script, opened 
>> the db connection, did some more queries, closed the connection, went to 
>> next script.....
>>
>> Is there anything speaking against making the db link pointer to be 
>> global, call the connection script once right at the start of the set of 
>> scripts and then assume that it is just there?
>>
>> Or asking differently, is there anything speaking against opening and 
>> closing the db connection each time a set of queries is to be executed?
>>
>> I just wonder if I make poor PHP / MySQL work harder than necessary.
>>
>> David
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>
> As long as you need to send queries to the database you should keep the 
> connection open, because connecting to the database is very often the 
> slowest part of the whole script.
>
> - Jay
>
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