Re: Forking in PHP

See the pcntl extension in CVS On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Jonathan Chum wrote: > I'm developing an app in PHP whereby I need to run simulataneous routines at > once, but have some sort of control on how many instances of the childs will > be spawned and died before another batch is started. > > Basically, I'm thinking of using a for loop that loops. Let's say I have 20 > loops that I need todo, but loop through and executing a system() 5 loops > then wait for 15s which should give it enough time for the script in the > system() to finish up and die. Then loop the next batch of 5 and so on. > > I'm wondering whether this would work or not. Also, I'm wondering whether > there is a way todo this, similar to the forking in PERL. Any help would be > great! > > Regards, > Jonathan Chum > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > A I S M e d i a , I n c . > "We Build eBusinesses" > 3541 Habersham at Northlake, Building E > Tucker, GA 30084 > Tel: 678.382.2247 / Fax: 678.382.2471 > http://www.aismedia.com / jchum@aismedia.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > >