I have this doubt, I've searched the web and the answers seem to be diversified. Is it better to use mysql_pconnect over mysql_connect when connecting to a database via PHP? I read that pconnect scales much better, but on the other hand, being a persistent connection... having 10 000 connections at the same time, all persistent, doesn't ...
I had never heard of persistent connections before, and I don't understand the advantages.
I run a PHP/MySQL based internet website, it receives tens of thousands of page views per day. In my header file on each of these pages I have just used mysql_connect() and I haven't bothered with terminating the connection in the footer file.
In ...
I've been using the same DB abstraction library for years. But today it started writing these Notice (8) messages in my log.
The application is working correctly but every time a script connects to the DB the same notice is logged.
I cannot think what might have changed. This is happening on my local dev machine.
OS X 10.6.2
PHP 5.3.0...
if i have a script which insert a data then exit
the script will be opened by 100 user at same time or within 2 mins
actually im doing email tracking
so pconnect is bettwe or connect is better to reduce the resource
i have close when after insert
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It is know that connection to the SQL server will not be closed when the execution of the script ends. Instead, the link will remain open for future use (mysql_close() will not close links established by mysql_pconnect()).
So when does the mysql_pconnect() connection gets closed ?
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i have written a daemon to fetch some stuff from mysql and make some curl requests based on the info from mysql. since i'm fluent in php i've written this daemon in php using System_Daemon from pear.
this works fine but i'm curious about the best approach for connecting to mysql. feels weird to create a new mysql connection every coupl...