> For an application that I am writing, one of the ideas I have is only
> possible if I can create two (or more) seperate connections to a database at
> the same time. I have been told that this is possible using mod_perl,
> however I was wondering if such a thing had been implemented in PHP.
> Basically, time is of the essence, and the main things slowing down data
> retrieval are connection times... so we want to get them all done
> simultaneously.
You can have as many concurrent connections as you want. They can even
span different databases. As in, you can have 5 MySQL connections, 3
Oracle, 18 Sybase and 500 DB2 connections...
-Rasmus
