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What is it?

PHP library for forking process and multitasking

• Installation
• Example usage

Installation

PHP 8.1 is required

The pcntl extension is required.

The posix extension is required.

$ composer require tapat4n/fork

Example usage

use Tapat4n\Fork\ForkManager;
use Tapat4n\Fork\Message\MessageInterface;

$manager = new ForkManager();
$i = 0;

$manager->addWorker(function (MessageInterface $message) use ($i) {
    $message->set(++$i);
});

$manager->addWorker(function (MessageInterface $message) use ($i) {
    $content = '';
    while ($i < 1000) {
        $content .= $i;
        $i++;
    }
    $message->set($content);
}, true); // set true to detach process

$manager->dispatch();

var_dump($manager->getMessages());
var_dump($manager->getMessagesContent());