Re: Best method for threading?

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Galen wrote: > I'm working on a web spider application where the server has > considerable latency in serving the information I require, but > simultaneous requests do not have a significant performance hit. I have > a nice little class that handles all the sessions, cookies, etc > perfectly. What's the best way to basically hand off a bunch of threads > to access this information without hanging up the execution of my > script? I plan to handle inter-thread coordination via MySQL and code > in the main script. I've done threads before like this and have had > great luck, but all my solutions have been hack-ish at best. What are > the cleanest solution for this? What do you all do to handle situations > like this? > > I will be running PHP 4.3.1.0 under Linux and Mac OS X, depending on > location. > > Thoughts anybody? You don't need threads for this. See http://php.net/curl_multi_exec PHP5 only, but there is nothing PHP5-specific about the multi stuff in the PHP5 curl extension, so you can just move it to PHP4. -Rasmus