Creating a new php process from within a php script

Yami King

Hi,
I wanted to know how I could create a new php process, within a php script.
Should work like this:
php.exe (1)
newproc.php -> create php process
php.exe (2)
// want to allow scripts to run in this one (2), and the previous one (1) at the same time
Is this possible, without too much loading time and computer crashes :P?

abyssisthebest

why would you want to do this?
Abyss automatically opens a php.exe when a php script is called (If you have set it up right)

Yami King

I was just wondering, could be nice to do this so.
BTW: Don't say Runkit does the job, because I want something that's crossplatform (as far as possible) and don't want to use any (or atleast as few as possible) extensions that are not available by standard.

AbyssUnderground

Abyss automatically does what you have asked to do. If two scripts need to run at once then two php.exe processes are opened.

Yami King

But how can I request to run another script from the requested page in another process.
Like:
The visitor requests `test.php`.
The php interpreter sees that `test.php` calls another php process to run `test2.php`
The server sends the processed `test.php` and `test2.php` to the visitor
(test.php and test2.php need to be returned as 1 single file but need to be processed separatly so both pages use a single php.exe process)
Quite hard to explain, but the basic idea I want is some kind of dualcore processing for php.

aprelium

Yami King,
PHP has no standard way to do that.
If you are on Windows, you can call the Win32 API to create a new process and to later get its output (but that's not easy to do especially with PHP). On other operating systems, you'll have to do something similar (calling the OS primitives that are responsible of creating new processes). But that's not recommended and it won't probably help the speed of your processing (even if you have a dual core) since you have no guarantee that each PHP process will be executed on a different CPU core (there are other processes running so your OS can decide that the CPU allocation is better if the second CPU is used by Abyss or other applications while PHP is running).

Yami King

Too bad this can't be done. Did look at some primitive ways like the W32 API but that's not a great solution indeed.

pkSML

YamiKing, are you trying to just get a PHP script to execute another PHP script? It won't give you any speed improvement (actually, PHP's initialization will take time).
Anyways, I use

system("c:\php\php.exe d:\my_php_script.php");

I guess the benefit to this is being able to run scripts outside of your web directories.

Yami King

My goal is to retrieve a better performance, using multi-tasking between php processes.
This can be compared as dual core (in the most simplest idea).