Posted by Ming on 07/01/07 04:45

I do not understand the sample code on php.net for curl_multi_exec.
Any help? Many thanks!

<?php
// create both cURL resources
$ch1 = curl_init();
$ch2 = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.php.net/");
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

//create the multiple cURL handle
$mh = curl_multi_init();

//add the two handles
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch2);

$running=null;
//execute the handles
do {
curl_multi_exec($mh,$running);
} while ($running > 0);
//close the handles
curl_multi_remove_handle($ch1);
curl_multi_remove_handle($ch2);
curl_multi_close($mh);

?>

Question 1:

What does $running mean? $running is NULL at first, how it becomes a
value which is greater than zero?

Question 2:

For the User Contributed Notes (the other script on that page):

do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

while ($active and $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
// wait for network
if (curl_multi_select($mh) != -1) {
// pull in any new data, or at least handle timeouts
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
}
}

What the hell $active is? No this declaration at all!

By the way, why there is no explanation of libcurl's pre-defined
constants? It is a nightmare to guess the real meaning of all those
constants!

Thanks!

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