centraldesktop/parallel

Easily allows forking up to a max number of processes

An easy to use and simple library for doing parallel processing using simple process forks., _(*1)

All credit should go to the amazing maintainers of Perl's (CPAN) Parallel::ForkManager which I used for about 10 years., _(*2)

To use:

Add this package to your composer dependencies., _(*3)

use CentralDesktop\Parallel\ForkManager;, _(*4)

// build an object, limit to total concurrent processes., _(*5)

You must declare(ticks = 1); in order for signal handing to work properly in PHP, _(*6)

$fm = new ForkManager(10); $fm->start();, _(*7)

while ($fm->alive()) { if ($fm->start()) { continue; }, _(*8)

do_something();, _(*9)

$fm->stop(); } $fm->shutdown_all();, _(*10)

You probably may want to handle specific signals by installing signal handlers., _(*11)

$fm->set_parent_sighandler(array($this, 'parent_signal_handler'));, _(*12)

$fm->set_child_sighandler(array($this, 'child_signal_handler'));, _(*13)