PHP Parallel Requests

I want to make http requests at the same time as in LWP Parallel for PERL

[JerryOdom]

Does anyone know if this can be done? In perl its simple via LWP Parallel but I've yet to figure a way in ony PHP.

Thanks! -Jerry

[Adrian2k4]

what do you exactly meen with parallel requests?

[mincklerstraat]

Won't open one connection, read that file to a variable, close the connection, open another connection ... (serial) but be able to get a bunch of files over http simultaneously - can save time.

I don't know, I think looking at the curl functions might be your best bet. [be2.php.net...] .

[lazydog]

This previous thread might help you -
[webmasterworld.com...]

[JerryOdom]

When I say parallel I mean being able to retrieve 5 different http resources at the same time. So that if they each take at most 2 seconds to come back to me then the entire retrieval process takes 2 seconds and not 10.

At a glance curl looks like it may do what I want. Thank you and I'll post here to let you all know.

[sabai]

You're talking about multi threading, which is shaky ground as far as php goes... multi-thread perl is fairly mature on the other hand. Look into pcntl_fork and do some web searching for multithreaded php. You'll need apache 2 compiled for multi-threading I think.

If you're using a web host then forget about it.

Good luck!

[sabai]

Hey, I take it all back... looks like php5 does it with curl_multi_exec.