Re: [PHP-GTK] Multi-threading in PHP

Doesn't glib have supports for threads or is that just thread-safe
functions that I am thinking of.  I have run into this before; threads
would be useful in some situations and since php already supports
semaphores and shared mem, this seems only right to support threads also
although I'm not sure how difficult that would be to accomplish.
	- Dan

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Sander Roobol wrote:

> Is it possible to create multi-threaded applications using PHP?
> I know that this is not a specific PHP-GTK question, but I think it's only
> usefull in stand-alone applications.
>
> What I want sounds simple: I want to download multiple files via HTTP (using
> fsockopen, fgets, fputs, etc) while the GUI keeps responding to userinput
> (ie., to cancel one of the downloads).
>
> A possibility is to create multiple instances of a php-script (using exec or
> something), but I can't think of a good way to communicate between the
> instances. I don't want to use a database (most client-computers don't have
> MySQL running), and using files to communicate seems to slow because you
> need to check for changes every second or so.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sander
>
>
>

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