PHP Request Lifecycle

Question

Okay, so I\'m relatively naive in my knowledge of the PHP VM and I\'ve been wondering about something lately. In particular, what the request lifecycle looks like in PHP for

Answer 1

No, you are not missing anything. If you need to keep some application state, you must do it using DB, files, Memcache etc.

As this can sound crazy if you're not used to it, it's sometimes good for scaling and other things - you keep your state in some other services, so you can easily run few instances of PHP server.