RE: Multiple Threads?

Won't work for web connections, because it waits for each connection to complete before running the next one. Matthew Walker Senior Software Engineer ePliant Marketing -----Original Message----- From: Richard Creech [mailto:richardc@dreamriver.com] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 1:46 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: Matthew Walker Subject: Re: Multiple Threads? Hello All, IF you are using mySQL database then the php manual indicates you can run multiple connections. Presumably you could execute several web queries at the same time, each with its own connection. I haven't tried such, but the manual suggests it is possible: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php "If a second call is made to mysql_connect() with the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of the already opened link will be returned. The new_link parameter modifies this behavior and makes mysql_connect() always open a new link, even if mysql_connect() was called before with the same parameters. Note: The new_link parameter became available in PHP 4.2.0 " Kind Regards, Richard Creech richardc@dreamriver.com 250.744.3350 Pacific Time Canada Dreamriver Software Powers the Net http://www.dreamriver.com "Matthew Walker" <mwalker@mountaintopherbs.com> wrote: I don’t remember the name of the module offhand, but once upon a time, I used a perl module that would fork multiple threads so that you could execute several web queries at the same time. This saved a lot of time, if, for instance, you had to get information from UPS, FedEx, and the USPS about shipping rates to display on a page. If you had to query them one at a time, the delay would be unacceptable. However, with that perl module, you could query them all at the same time, making it much faster. Does anyone know if such a thing exists for PHP? Matthew Walker Senior Software Engineer ePliant Marketing --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.345 / Virus Database: 193 - Release Date: 4/9/2002