Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/21/07 02:46

Benjamin wrote:
> On May 20, 8:55 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Graham Weldon wrote:
>>> Has anyone got any information or links for some tutorials on threading
>>> with PHP?
>>> I was looking at running a socket listener, and launch off new threads,
>>> and co-ordinate as requests come in.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Graham
>> Graham,
>>
>> The PHP cli doesn't support multithreading. You can get multiple
>> threads if you're running as an Apache or IIS extension and the
>> webserver is running multiple threads, but that's all.
> That's not completely true. You can the Process Control Functions
> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php). However, they're only
> avaible on Unix like systems.

Yes, but those are for multiple processes, not threads. PHP doesn't
support multi-threading.

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