[PHP] Object Persistence like Resource Persistence already implemented?

I'm building a reusable component object system in PHP where construction of object trees, which needs to occur on every page, is very expensive. Running the subsequently built objects is very inexpensive. To make this system viable to use on high volume websites, I want to keep these objects

[PHP] Module writing question: Sharing resources between modules

I would like to port some Mysql code I have over to a PHP module. To make things clean, I'd like the exported functions from my new module to accept MySQL-Link resources as in: $mysql_conn = mysql_connect( ); my_custom_module_func( $mysql_conn ); >From my reading of ext/mysql/php_mysql.c