Re: Async operating in PHP

> Will PHP ever have this? That would certainly be very > interesting to have, the option to just push away a bigger task. I'm not sure implementing an event loop in core really jives with PHP's primary intentions, so I personally don't think it makes much sense to consider something like this. That said, you can absolutely implement this yourself right now in userland using tools like pecl/libevent, pecl/ev or even your own custom userland loop via stream_select(). There are many people doing this quite successfully already and using the available extension it's possible to write non-blocking event-looped applications that are every bit as performant as node.js.