有没有办法在PHP中实现多线程呢?假设你正在写一个基于多台服务器的PHP应用,理想的情况时同时向多台服务器发送请求,而不是一台接一台。可以实现吗?当有人想要实现并发功能时,他们通常会想到用fork或者spawn threads,但是当他们发现PHP不支持多线程的时候,大概会转换思路去用一些不够好的语言,比如Perl。
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其实的是大多数情况下,你大可不必使用fork或者线程,并且你会得到比用fork或thread更好的性能。假设你要建立一个服务来检查正在运行的n台服务器,以确定他们还在正常运转。你可能会写下面这样的代码:
<ol class="dp-xml"><li class="alt"><span><span>$</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">hosts</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">array</font></span><span>("host1.sample.com", "host2.sample.com", "host3.sample.com"); </span></span></li><li><span>$</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">timeout</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">15</font></span><span>; </span></li><li class="alt"><span>$</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">status</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">array</font></span><span>(); </span></li><li><span>foreach ($hosts as $host) { </span></li><li class="alt"><span> $</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">errno</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">0</font></span><span>; </span></li><li><span> $</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">errstr</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">""</font></span><span>; </span></li><li class="alt"><span> $</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">s</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">fsockopen</font></span><span>($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); </span></li><li><span> if ($s) { </span></li><li class="alt"><span> $status[$host] = "Connectedn"; </span></li><li><span> fwrite($s, "HEAD / HTTP/1.0rnHost: $hostrnrn"); </span></li><li class="alt"><span> do { </span></li><li><span> $</span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">data</font></span><span> = </span><span class="attribute-value"><font color="#0000ff">fread</font></span><span>($s, 8192); </span></li><li class="alt"><span> if (strlen($data) == 0) { </span></li><li><span> break; </span></li><li class="alt"><span> } </span></li><li><span> $status[$host] </span><span class="attribute"><font color="#ff0000">.</font></span><span>= $data; </span></li><li class="alt"><span> } </span></li><li><span> while (true); </span></li><li class="alt"><b>/本文来源gao@!dai!ma.com搞$$代^@码5网@</b><strong>搞代gaodaima码</strong><span> fclose($s); </span></li><li><span> } </span></li><li class="alt"><span> else { </span></li><li><span> $status[$host] = "Connection failed: $errno $errstrn"; </span></li><li class="alt"><span> } </span></li><li><span>} </span></li><li class="alt"><span>print_r($status); </span></li><li><span class="tag"><strong><font color="#006699">?></font></strong></span><span> </span></li></ol>
它运行的很好,但是在fsockopen()分析完hostname并且建立一个成功的连接(或者延时$timeout秒)之前,扩充这段代码来管理大量服务器将耗费很长时间。
因此我们必须放弃这段代码;我们可以建立异步连接-不需要等待fsockopen返回连接状态。PHP仍然需要解析hostname(所以直接使用ip更加明智),不过将在打开一个连接之后立刻返回,继而我们就可以连接下一台服务器。