Hey,
    First off, nice work on php.  I must say it's a piece of art.  Well, I was wondering...

I'm trying to build an application that could required mutiple databases.  Obviously, we start off with one database.  As the company gets bigger, and the need for faster access time grows, I was like to split the database records onto mutiple database.  It's kinda like a dynamic database system.  The only problem was, is that when a database is down, and I make a call to mysql_connect(), it hangs, and of coarse, the script timeouts.  I know you can set the timeout limit on the script, but I was wondering if it would be featureful enough to add a timeout limit to the mysql_connect() call.  That way, we can avoid doing a fsockopen() to see if the connection will be ok, before the mysql_connect() call, or even just simply waiting for the mysql_connect() call to return.  With 30 mysql databases to connect to, this is very time consuming, if they were all down.  (If they were all down, at a time, I would be out of a job. -- ;)).  Just a suggestion, in which I think could be very beneficial.  Please let me know what you think.