Persisting objects over application lifetime (without serialization)

Hello, is it possible when using PHP5 as an Apache module (with or without third party products/modules) to persist objects for the lifetime of the application?

I'm not talking about serializing objects when a request is processed, then unserializing them in the beginning of the next request - but rather thread-safe objects that can simultaneously be used by several requests.

I have been suggested making a PHP script that runs stand-alone, listening on TCP/IP for local requests from the Apache web scripts. While this absolutely is a feasible solution, I was hoping the same could be accomplished without the use of having a stand-alone script (which basically means another server process to watch and monitor).



Regards,
Nils Magnus

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