How to make asynchronous HTTP requests in PHP

Question

Is there a way in PHP to make asynchronous HTTP calls? I don\'t care about the response, I just want to do something like file_get_contents(), but not wait for

Answer 1

You can use this library: https://github.com/stil/curl-easy

It's pretty straightforward then:

getOptions()->set(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Specify function to be called when your request is complete
$request->addListener('complete', function (cURL\Event $event) {
    $response = $event->response;
    $httpCode = $response->getInfo(CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    $html = $response->getContent();
    echo "\nDone.\n";
});

// Loop below will run as long as request is processed
$timeStart = microtime(true);
while ($request->socketPerform()) {
    printf("Running time: %dms    \r", (microtime(true) - $timeStart)*1000);
    // Here you can do anything else, while your request is in progress
}

Below you can see console output of above example. It will display simple live clock indicating how much time request is running:

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