Re: Multi-thread programming in PHP?

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:26:05PM +0300, Topi Maenpaa wrote: > Are there any plans of incorporating multi-thread support to the PHP > programming language? I haven't been able to find any initiative of this > kind, and I was just wondering if anyone is even planning to do it. In a > project I'm currently involved in the need for multiple threads is really > critical, and the absence of such a feature unfortunately renders PHP > useless. Otherwise it could be just a perfect choice. PHP has threading support in the way of forking, The normal *nix way of threading. This library is called Process Control functions (http://nl2.php.net/en/ref.pcntl.php). But this only works in the CGI (console) version of PHP. > Is it even possible to create multiple threads in the current PHP version? > Any estimations of the amount of work required? I have no experience on > Windows, so someone should anyway convert pthreads to their Windows > correspondents. This kind of threading (forking) only works in *nix enviroments. As far as i know PHP doesn't support Windows threading. Very cool stuff for daemons :-) Also the *nix signals (sighup, sigint, etc) are supported. Have fun! Dave Mertens