Re: [PHP-PEAR] event-based oop design

Cool thing Stig, 

--- Stig Sæther Bakken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jesus,
> 
> PHP has a feature called "ticks" that lets you do
> cooperative
> multitasking in a PHP request.  A tick is a callback
> from Zend for
> every N statements processed.  Example:
> 
> <?php
> 
> function tick($arg) {
>     print "[tick, arg=$arg]\n";
> }
> 
> register_tick_function("tick", 42);
> 
> // these statements are not "ticked":
> 1;1;1;1;
> 
> declare (ticks = 1) {
>     // these statements are "ticked":
>     1;1;1;1;
> }
> 
> ?>

I did not see that in the code, but then again, I had
not looked at it since last November.

This could really be a nice thing to document,
although I can see it can be abused or be a nice
code-bomb. 

Anyone has strong opinions against documenting this in
the manual?

> You could use this to implement polling of an "event
> bus", 

Hey! we can put this into PEAR/Experimental so we can
have event based caching of info, etc.! And then we
can have a master script/class the can destroy old
copies running, and then... (just kidding, just
kidding)

> but if you
> implement that in PHP you'll come back as a toad in
> your next
> life. ;-)

Crooooak! Crooooak! Crooooak! (plop!)


=====
--- Jesus M. Castagnetto ([email protected])

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