Reading from multiple files/urls simultaneously

[IWeb]

Hello,

Is it possible to read multiple files/urls at the same time in a PHP script?

Thanks,

[laserlight]

Yes.

[IWeb]

And how (stream_select()?)?

[laserlight]

You're looking towards using stream functions?

It depends, I was thinking more on the lines of the PHP equivalent of C file handling functions.

[IWeb]

It's important that it works on all os'es, so nativ C wouldn't be a good idea.

But I think it could work with stream_select(), but I don't know how...

[laserlight]

um, not native C, PHP's implementation of similiar functions (though PHP is written in C).

i.e. [man]fopen/man, [man]fread/man, [man]fclose/man with multiple file pointers.

[IWeb]

can you please post an example?