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Multithreading in PHP with CURL

Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems has posted a good tutorial over on the IBuildings blog titled “Multithreading in PHP with CURL”. It’s a short read with some proof-of-concept code but worth taking a look at if you’ve ever wondered how to simulate multi-threaded processing with PHP. []
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 curl   Extension   Tutorials 
In Part One of this series you looked at the basic framework of a PHP extension. You declared simple functions that returned both static and dynamic values to the calling script, defined INI options, and declared internal values (globals). In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to accept values passed into your functions from a calling script and discover how PHP and the Zend Engine manage variables internally. []
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 curl   PECL   Tutorials 
cURL and libcurl are libaries that allow a webserver to transfer files with a remote computer using a variety of Internet protocols. The libaries are highly configurable, allowing practically any type of client-server request to be peformed. By using these tools, a webserver can act as a client, creating and responding to requests using any technology built on HTTP, like XML-RPC, SOAP, or WebDAV. []