Make a separate "thread" in php

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Is it possible to make seperate thread to execute something time intensive in PHP? Theres a function that needs to contact an external server but the reply from that server is not important so it would be better to put it in a new thread instead of slowing the whole page load down a few seconds.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '11 at 21:16

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No, there's no multi-threading in PHP. You can, however use the PCNTL functions to fork a child process.

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '11 at 21:34

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This is not php threads per se, however, based on your description, if you're running under *nix, you can handle this quite easily by putting the code you want to run asynchronously in a seperate script and calling it with the exec function using '&' to background the process.

exec('bgscript.php &');

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Redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null by adding > /dev/null 2>/dev/null – gview Sep 03 '11 at 21:42

Make a separate "thread" in php

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