Is there any setTimeout equivalent in php?

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Is there any equivalent to javascript setTimeout method in php ?

what I know that php is not multithreading but I could be wrong.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? – Wesley Murch Oct 04 '13 at 16:19 — Wesley Murch, Oct 04 '13 at 16:19
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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:19

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No, there isn't. Mainly because PHP is server-sided so it wouldn't make much sense to have timed events. There is, though, the sleep function which halts the execution for a given time.

answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:19

federico-t

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:24

You can do multi-threading in PHP with pthreads

From PHP manual:

pthreads  is an Object Orientated API that allows user-land multi-threading in PHP.
It includes all the tools you need to create multi-threaded applications targeted at the Web or the Console.
PHP applications can create, read, write, execute and synchronize with Threads, Workers and Stackables.

References

1) http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1jo517/multithreading_in_php_with_pthreads/

2) https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:18

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PHP has threads so you can fork like you would in other multithreaded languages.

You can always make your own event-loop of course ;)

answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:18

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 16:23

There is no way that you can get a JS equivalent. Has nothing to do with that. Are different technologies.

I dont know what are trying to do. But you can set the max_execution_time on for php.ini file or override that value at script level.

take a look at

http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

Is there any setTimeout equivalent in php?

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