eaglewu/fork-helper

Simple class to fork processes in PHP and allow multi-threading

2.0.1 2016-11-19 06:38 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.0

Requires (Dev)

• mockery/mockery: ^0.9.5
• phpunit/phpunit: ^5.6

Suggests

• ext-pcntl: Needed to allow multi-threaded execution of code
• ext-shmop: If pcntl is present then shmop is required to handle errors

Apache-2.0

• Craig Duncan

• process
• fork
• control
• pcntl
• multi-threading

README

Simple class to fork processes in PHP and allow multi-threading.

Full documentation is available at http://duncan3dc.github.io/fork-helper/
PHPDoc API documentation is also available at http://duncan3dc.github.io/fork-helper/api/

Quick Example

Run some code asynchronously:

$fork = new \duncan3dc\Forker\Fork;

$fork->call(function () {
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 3; $i++) {
        echo "Process A - " . $i . "\n";
        sleep(1);
    }
});
$fork->call(function () {
    for ($i = 1; $i < 3; $i++) {
        echo "Process B - " . $i . "\n";
        sleep(1);
    }
});

sleep(1);
echo "Waiting for the threads to finish...\n";
$fork->wait();
echo "End\n";

Read more at http://duncan3dc.github.io/fork-helper/

Changelog

A Changelog has been available since version 2.0.0

Where to get help

Found a bug? Got a question? Just not sure how something works?
Please create an issue and I'll do my best to help out.
Alternatively you can catch me on Twitter