Interprocess communication within PHP with a continuous process?

Question

I have a question about interprocess communication within PHP. What I want is to have one process to be continuously running, and to have other processes communicate with th

Answer 1

A very useful and popular interprocess communication mechanism is known as Sockets. PHP's support for it is just fine.

Answer 2

I can also recommend Sockets, but using the stream functions like stream_socket_server() etc.

Because these are more programmer-friendly than the "raw" socket functions

Answer 3

Depending on what exactly your needs are, you might wanna take a look at something lile ActiveMQ

Answer 4

Take a look at proc_open. I have not used it extensively, but you should be able to accomplish this using this function.