Many of the component libraries and toolkits I'm familiar with lack CLI-specific libraries (zend, kohana, etc..). Are there any libraries/tools that are designed specifically for developing CLI application (such as an abstraction of php's multi-threading library, pcntl/posix)? ...
Hello, does PHP support something like ampersand in bash (forking)? Let's say I wanted to use cURL on 2 web pages concurrently, so script doesn't have to wait before first cURL command finnishes, how could one achieve that in PHP? Something like this in bash: curl www.google.com & curl www.yahoo.com & wait ...
I have a PHP script that will generate a report using PHPExcel from data queried from a MySQL DB. Currently, it is linear in processing in that it gets the data back from MySQL, reads in the Excel template, writes the data to the template, then outputs it. I have optimized the code to the point that the data is only iterated over once, a...
I am trying to create a multithreaded PHP script that POSTs the USN (University Seat Number) to the university results website and then indexes the result. Please give me the plot to do so. I started learning PHP a month ago. please do read the following: Valid USN regex is /^([12347]{1})([a-zA-Z]{2})([0-9]{2})([a-zA-Z]{2})([0-9]{3})$/...