Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 01/21/08 15:45

Marcel Molenaar wrote:
> It would be nice to fire the two requests at the same time so the
> total would be 3 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
>
> I do not think this is possible with PHP or am i wrong?
>

If you are using fsockopen to build your connection, you can use
stream_set_blocking to select non-blocking mode, which enables you to do
multiple requests as the following example shows:

http://playground.jwscripts.com/async-streams.phps

Using the SOAP extension, you might be able to use forking:

http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.pcntl-fork.php

See this page for OS-specific restrictions.


HTH;
JW

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