Re: Multithreading for OOP PHP

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Florian Müller <florian-mueller@outlook.com> wrote: > I actually tought about just the same structures as Java uses(something in this way: > Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() { ....blabla }} > I thought this would actually be a good benefit if PHP supported this. It's just as we > sometimes use PHP for doing some big Server works (e.g. database copying or something) and it would > be nice to controll by yourself which Thread (or process) does which part of the job. > For normal HTTP calls which must be handled within milliseconds, this actually does not make > sense, that's right ;) > Hi, Have you seen the pcntl[1] and pthreads[2] extensions? pcntl extension provides a pcntl_fork function, which is also some kind of threading. Pthreads is almost like it's Java equivalent. - Matijn [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pcntl.php [2] http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php Ps. Please don't top post on this mailing list.