Application Variables with PHP – first in a series of articles on developing an architecture for Enterprise PHP. My interest has been piqued on creating large-scale PHP applications, particularly on persistent state/application variables for clustering etc. I’ll be attending OSCON and the Advanced PHP tutorial, and it looks like they’ll be covering this topic in-depth. I’ve also been following some of the discussion that’s been happening on php-dev with regards to the future of PHP. While I don’t think that PHP should turn into J2E (shudder), it could do with some things to make larger-scale development easier without compromising it’s usability or accessbility. I think I’ve talked about this before, so I’m going to stop now.