Let me put the requirement to satisfy first
A PHP gateway, and a set of request handlers which uses many constants which currently i am defining in a constants.php with define('conts','value');
I can define this constants in a property file like
const1 =val1
const2 = val2
const3 = val3
in some external file say gateway.properties and load it to define() at runtime. Can this be a one-time action, so that as many threads created by the php can access this constant further, with out reloading it again?
I dont know if this is really possible, i want an expert advice.
Thanks
I would handle this by stuffing the resulting object in memcached.
There is obviously some overhead with this. You will need to weigh whether or not it makes sense for your situation. For 3 variables, it won’t make sense at all. For 300,000, maybe it will. Test it and see.