Re: Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processe s

>Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. But HOW do I do it? > >i.e. I'm sitting in my accept connectinos loop in the chat daemon > >While(true) >{ > //waitforenwconnection > $new_connection_id=socket_accept(); > > //got a new connection, go process it > go_do_this_in_a_new_thread($new_connection_id); >} > >What do I put in place of go_do_this_in_a_new_thread()???? Use fsockopen() to "talk" to your *OTHER* PHP script waiting in a loop to do the *real* work. IE, have a *second* PHP file that runs on yet another socket to do the work. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Demitrious S. Kelly [mailto:apokalyptik@apokalyptik.com] >Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:01 PM >To: 'David Buerer'; php-general@lists.php.net >Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes > > >Yes. Write a daemon which listens on a socket and manages the communications >it gets from the satellite scripts and works the database for them... > >The scripts send off data, and process replies. They don't do the heavy >work... > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Buerer [mailto:david@pladesigns.com] >Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:30 PM >To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' >Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes > >How to I inovoke a new Thread from the middle of a PHP script? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Maine [mailto:pmaine@austin.rr.com] >Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:08 AM >To: David Buerer; php-general@lists.php.net >Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes > > >You can use threads with NT to accomplish what you are asking. > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Buerer [mailto:david@pladesigns.com] >Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:29 AM >To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' >Subject: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes > > >I've got effectivly a glorified chat server which upon the arrival of a >message thorugh a socket connection goes off and runs a bunch of database >processed. My questions is this: How can I seperate the database >processing into a seperate processor process? I really don't want the chat >server to have to wait until after the database processing is done to go >intercept and process another request--this just doesn't seem right. I want >the chat server process to be able to deal with getting and receiving >messages, and another process to deal with the database processing. That way >if one of the processes get's slow, the other isn't affected. Something like >the fork command would work really well, but fork doesn't exist in NT. > >Anyone have any ideas? > >I'm running Windows NT4.0 sp6a >Apache Server 1.3.xx >MySQL >and of course, PHP 4.2.1 > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm