Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/15/06 14:08

aladdin wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm trying to write a mutlithreading server with standalone PHP.
> Concurrent requests is possible. Normally it is done by handling each
> socket spawn by serversocket in separate threads. But it seems that
> there is no thread support in PHP at all.
>
> Would anyone give me some suggestions?
>
> BTW, is the community considering add thread support to PHP in the
> future? What is the major difficulty to import an existing thread
> library (such as pthread library) into PHP?
>

Hmmm, as much as I like PHP, I might suggest it is not the right approach for
this operation. PHP doesn't support threads, but you can fork a new process (on
Unix) as Chris indicated.

Personally I'd look at another language for this, such as C or C++.

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