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You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol) You could make asynch
by treflop 2y ago
You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol)
You could make asynchronous servers using socket_select(), which was added in PHP 4.1.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php
There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.
- diggan 2y ago> There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy. Reminds me of ReactPHP (no, not that React) that allowed you to do non-blocking I/O in PHP back in like 2012-2013 sometime. Maybe that's the library you're referring to actually? https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp
- treflop 2y agoI mean actual threads. Seems they still have the docs up: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php