No, it is not implemented.  The closest you have is persistent connections.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <srinivar@m...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:32 AM
Subject: [pro_php] DB connection pooling


> Hi,
>
> The concept of maintaining a pool of resources which take time to
> initialise, like database handles is not new. At least one server side web
> application language I know of "Java Servlets" uses this to speed up DB
> lookups.
>
> My thinking goes thus, with a CGI version of PHP this may not be possible
to
> implement since the PHP interpreter is in and out of memory as and when
> calls are made to it. But a PHP module in Apache or an ISAPI dll in IIS
may
> be able to provide this feature.
>
> I have not come across this in PHP, so I'd like to know:
>
> Is this implemented in PHP? How can I simulate it if it is not available
as
> part of the language?
>
> -Srini
>
>
>
>