As multi-threading is not built in PHP I've been using a hack letting
the Apache server handle the multi-threading issues, but I'm really
curious of other approaches to this issue.

If anyone has any ideas I'd be more than glad to hear them up and
discuss them.

George Maicovschi schreef:
> As multi-threading is not built in PHP I've been using a hack letting
> the Apache server handle the multi-threading issues, but I'm really
> curious of other approaches to this issue.
>
> If anyone has any ideas I'd be more than glad to hear them up and
> discuss them.

Hi George,

I take it you are working on Apache2?
Well, as far as I understood PHP isn't threadsafe (yet).
Not to mention all the additional packages (for DB access eg).

I wouldn't go for such an approach in any productionenvironment.

The following articles might shed some light on the issues:

http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?Editorials ID=102
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-believe-the-lies-php-isnt -thread-safe-yet/

Unless you have some compelling reason to use a threaded webserver, I
think, for now, the best option is fastcgi, if performance is an issue.

If you are just experimenting, consider this message not sent. ;-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller