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    copied!<p>I'm having a multiplayer server that's using PHPSockets, and thus is written entirely in PHP.</p> <p>Currently, whenever I'm making any changes to the PHP server-script I have to kill the script and then start it over again. This means that any users online is disconnected (normally not a problem because there aren't so many at the moment).</p> <p>Now I am rewriting the server-script to use custom PHP classes and sorten things up a little bit (you don't want to know how nasty it looks today). Today I was thinking: "Shouldn't it be possible to make changes to the php source without having to restart the whole script?".</p> <p>For example, I'm planning on having a <code>main.php</code> file that is including <code>user.php</code> which contains the class <code>MyUser</code> and <code>game.php</code> which contains the class <code>MyGame</code>. <strong>Now let's say that I would like to make a change to <code>user.php</code> and "reload" the server so that the changes to <code>user.php</code> goes into effect, without disconnecting any online users?</strong></p> <p>I tried to find other questions that answered this, the closest I got is this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6068359/modifying-a-running-script-and-having-it-reload-without-killing-it-php">Modifying a running script and having it reload without killing it (php)</a> , which however doesn't seem to solve the disconnection of online users.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>My own solutions to this were:</p> <ol> <li>At special occations, include the file external.php, which can access a few variables and use them however it'd like. When doing this, I had to make sure that there were no errors in the code as the whole server would crash if I tried accessing a method that did not exist.</li> <li><strong>Rewrite the whole thing to Java</strong>, which gave me the possibility of adding a plugin system using dynamic class reloading. Works like a charm. Bye bye PHP.</li> </ol>
 

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