https://github.com/krowinski/async

Run php closure asynchronously
https://github.com/krowinski/async

async closure composer-packages php prove-of-concept

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Run php closure asynchronously

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/krowinski/async
• Owner: krowinski
• Created: 2017-12-21T22:16:59.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-12-18T10:06:10.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-07T20:56:17.288Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: async, closure, composer-packages, php, prove-of-concept
• Language: PHP
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• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# async

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### How this work?

Well its basically "exec" with serialised closure. "Dressed" in nice libs like symfony process and console.

I serialise callable function and sent to child process by exec. To get callback I register shutdown function and wait for process to finish.

### Why not pcntl ?

- Pcntl extension fork, so you can forget using it in web applications like apache2/php-fpm etc its only for CLI

- forks retains the parent state (for example open files) so its problematic

### Problems ?

- Calling exec is slower then fork

- Some resource/function/data must be passed directly to closure

### Some research

- https://www.phproundtable.com/episode/asynchronous-php - good start to "know how" make php async

- https://amphp.org/ - non-blocking framework for PHP

### Example ?

Sure take a look - https://github.com/krowinski/async/blob/master/example/example.php

### User cases (mostly some code on website that user don't need to wait for)

- send callback

- publish to queue amqp

- send external analytic data

- remove files 

- process payments

### Supports M$ Windows?

NO.

### TODO 

- tests