Technically that would be multiplexing and not really multithreading, but it's a good idea. (One I had a few months ago -- I wrote a search engine for work in PHP that works prety much exactly as you both describe.)
The sockets extension for PHP will allow such functionality using socket_select(). J John Lim wrote: > Hi Bart > > This can be simulated using non-blocking sockets. However this is one time > when using > Perl or Python might be a better solution (sigh). > > Bart Frackiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > > a few days ago i saw here a thread about multi threading, but this didnīt > answer my question. > > I have a page, that must search the best price in multiple databases/plain > text files and perhaps one day xml-interfaces, some of them can be located > on extern hosts, every search can be a single function/object method. > > In my dreams i call this in multi thread (with a timeout functionality) to > handle lost connections or anything else that would cause endless queries, > and return after this to print out the results. Is this possible with any > function today? Or will this be possible in future? > > Best Regards, > > Bart Frackiewicz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
