Re: LWP::Parallel in PHP

php.net/pcntl_fork On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:09 am, David Otton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:25:05 +0300, you wrote: > >I am looking for PHP analog of Perl LWP::Parallel. > >I need to fetch several URL(pages) from PHP at the same time. > >I have a script which fetch 5-10 URL, each URL fetched 0.5 - 2 sec. > >Totally it's about 10 seconds in average. > >I suppose if I fetched them parallel I would speed up the script 5 times. > >I am looking mostly for PHP solutions. > >(Hope they exist :) > > Think you're out of luck. Yes, it's a problem I've run up against more than > once. There's no thread support in PHP [4. Anyone know if it's in 5?]. > > I suppose you might be able to hack something together by spawning external > processes, but... might as well just do it all externally then. -- "The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages- as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already." -Edward Abbey