PHP threadding

[cueball2000uk]

is it possible to reuse functions already in use?

instead of waiting for the function to finish executing, say

<?php

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM here WHERE this='that'");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
//update the row to remove it from this result set next run
##snip update code##
run_this();
?>

And use

<?php

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM here WHERE this='that'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
//update the row to remove it from this result set next run
##snip update code##
     run_this();
}
?>

or would it cause complications?

[ScubaKing22]

Just try and if it doesn't work report the problem/error here.

[cueball2000uk]

There was no noticable increse in speed, it appears that using this inside a while loop, waits for the called function to finish before it continues executing the loop.

Any furthers ideas on how this may be acomplished?

[cueball2000uk]

I worked out that

file() was slowing it down,

now im using
fopen()
fread()
fclose()

and the speed increse was about 400/500%.