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As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntl_fork which had its own issues, and you couldn't really handle the results of those tasks properly, etc.
As such, a habit has kind of developed where we go straight for more intricate solutions such as queuing (which just delays your task if anything), React PHP, or even using another language altogether. But PHP can do threading, and more importantly it's a lot easier than you probably think.
In this article I'm going to dive into the pthreads extension (short for POSIX Threads). It has been around for a while (since 2012) but I feel like too many people forget it exists or assume it is going to be painful to use – mostly because the official documentation is rather slim about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:37PM
php is no worse than any other language, and its one of the easiest for programming web apps, so to all the naysayers out there... get over it already
it probably suffers from tall poppy syndrome more than anything because some of the largest and busiest websites use it (such as facebook and wikipedia), and people who prefer other languages get all pissy about it
(Score: 2, Disagree) by TheRaven on Friday November 27 2015, @11:14AM
php is no worse than any other language
That's simply not true. I can't be bothered to explain the myriad things that make PHP worse than any other mainstream language, but fortunately someone else has already done an excellent job [eev.ee]. Most languages have their quirks (JavaScript's weird semicolon insertion and lack of sensible number types, for example), but PHP is unique in being composed entirely from poorly composed quirks.
sudo mod me up