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

I find this package quite useful and very simple: https://github.com/amphp/parallel-functions

It will load all 3 urls in parallel. You can also use class instance methods in the closure.

For example I use Laravel extension based on this package https://github.com/spatie/laravel-collection-macros#parallelmap

Here is my code:

    /**
     * Get domains with all needed data
     */
    protected function getDomainsWithdata(): Collection
    {
        return $this->opensrs->getDomains()->parallelMap(function ($domain) {
            $contact = $this->opensrs->getDomainContact($domain);
            $contact['domain'] = $domain;
            return $contact;
        }, 10);
    }

It loads all needed data in 10 parallel threads and instead of 50 secs without async it finished in just 8 secs.