multithreading in PHP

[sfullman]

Here's the short version.

say you want to write large file or do a large mysql query, that query may take 30-40 seconds (not unreasonable) or perhaps just 5.

But is there a way to have another independent thread that does a scriptTimeout on that lenght of time and say interrupts the socket connection to mysql? so in other words:

mysql_query($compexSQL) but if it takes over 5 seconds interrupt and run a subroutine

??

PHP can do cool stuff, never hurts to ask :-)

Sam

[Migs]

Hmmm. As far as I know, there is no true multithreading support in PHP, although there has been some talk about including it in future versions. I do think this will be an eventual necessity in PHP.

But, in my opinion, queries should not normally take 40 seconds to execute, regardless of their length. Your best solution may be query optimization rather than finding a multithreading alternative.