> Randolf Richardson wrote: > >>>In dealing with web applications and frontends to database or > >>>even just a dynamic web site PHP has every bit the power and ability that > >>>Java does and the development time is way down. > >> > >>Uh, how about threads. I know that you don't need them much but it sure > >>would be nice to be able to do background processing. > > > > [sNip] > > > > PHP doesn't support threads? > > Nope... > > I've always thought of Forking as > > overkill where threads are light and elegant. > > > > Depends on your environment... Forking in Linux is fairly lightweight.
But when you are using php with a web server you can't really use the process contol functions safely. Forking apache processes on your own is not a good idea. If forking were an option with php/apache it would do just fine. But currently it is not a viable solution. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php (read the first paragraph) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
