request length global variable

2010-04-23 Thread Tosh Cooey
I'm drawing a blank here and I probably shouldn't be, but... I would like to use a global variable that's only available for the duration of a request. I guess I could create() and undef() the variable at the start and end of each request but that seems so... inelegant... Any suggestions?

Re: request length global variable

2010-04-23 Thread Douglas Sims
I've struggled with wanting to use globals too, but it's not the functional way. Our current approach is to create a parallel request object and pass that through all of the function calls. We set a member of the parallel request object to the actual Apache request object. Something like this: