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

let me show you my way :)

needs nodejs installed on the server

(my server sends 1000 https get request takes only 2 seconds)

url.php :

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    } 
} 
fwite(fopen("urls.txt","w"),implode("\n",$urls);
execinbackground("nodejs urlscript.js urls.txt");
// { do your work while get requests being executed.. }
?>

urlscript.js >

var https = require('https');
var url = require('url');
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var dosya = process.argv[2];
var logdosya = 'log.txt';
var count=0;
http.globalAgent.maxSockets = 300;
https.globalAgent.maxSockets = 300;

setTimeout(timeout,100000); // maximum execution time (in ms)

function trim(string) {
    return string.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g, '')
}

fs.readFile(process.argv[2], 'utf8', function (err, data) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    parcala(data);
});

function parcala(data) {
    var data = data.split("\n");
    count=''+data.length+'-'+data[1];
    data.forEach(function (d) {
        req(trim(d));
    });
    /*
    fs.unlink(dosya, function d() {
        console.log('<%s> file deleted', dosya);
    });
    */
}


function req(link) {
    var linkinfo = url.parse(link);
    if (linkinfo.protocol == 'https:') {
        var options = {
        host: linkinfo.host,
        port: 443,
        path: linkinfo.path,
        method: 'GET'
    };
https.get(options, function(res) {res.on('data', function(d) {});}).on('error', function(e) {console.error(e);});
    } else {
    var options = {
        host: linkinfo.host,
        port: 80,
        path: linkinfo.path,
        method: 'GET'
    };        
http.get(options, function(res) {res.on('data', function(d) {});}).on('error', function(e) {console.error(e);});
    }
}


process.on('exit', onExit);

function onExit() {
    log();
}

function timeout()
{
console.log("i am too far gone");process.exit();
}

function log() 
{
    var fd = fs.openSync(logdosya, 'a+');
    fs.writeSync(fd, dosya + '-'+count+'\n');
    fs.closeSync(fd);
}