Multithreading means performing multiple tasks or processes simultaneously, we can achieve this in php by using following code,although there is no direct way to achieve multithreading in php but we can achieve almost same results by following way.
chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); //if you want to run this file as cron job
for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i += 1){
exec("php test_1.php $i > test.txt &");
//this will execute test_1.php and will leave this process executing in the background and will go
//to next iteration of the loop immediately without waiting the completion of the script in the
//test_1.php , $i is passed as argument .
}
Test_1.php
$conn=mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);
$db=mysql_select_db($db);
$i = $argv[1]; //this is the argument passed from index.php file
for($j = 0;$j<5000; $j ++)
{
mysql_query("insert into test set
id='$i',
comment='test',
datetime=NOW() ");
}
This will execute test_1.php two times simultaneously and both process will run in the background simultaneously ,so in this way you can achieve multithreading in php.
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