PHP asynchronous call implementation method_PHP tutorial

There is only a connectionless HTTP protocol for communication between the browser and the server. The characteristic of connectionless programs is that the client requests the server, and the server outputs the corresponding program according to the request, and cannot maintain a persistent connection.

A problem arises. The corresponding server of a client may execute for 1 second or for 1 minute. In this way, the browser will always be in a waiting state. If the program executes slowly, the user may not have the patience to turn off browsing. device.

Sometimes we don’t need to care about the results of program execution. There is no need to waste time and wait patiently like this. Then we have to find a way to make the program execute silently in the background without waiting.

For example, there is a scenario where a recommendation email is sent to 1,000 users. The user enters or imports the email account and submits it to the server for sending.

{
sendmail(.....);//Send mail } ?>
This code has a very poor user experience and cannot be used in practice. First of all, sending so many emails will cause the server to run out of time. In fact, the long user waiting time will make users doubt and lose confidence in the system product. However, the user does not need to wait until all 1,000 emails have been sent before submitting the message successfully. We can directly prompt the user to send it successfully after submitting it to the background, and then let the background program silently send it one by one.

At this time we need "asynchronous execution" technology to execute the code. The characteristic of asynchronous execution is silent execution in the background. The user does not need to wait for the execution result of the code. The benefits of using asynchronous execution:

1. Get rid of the application’s dependence on a single task

2. Improved program execution efficiency

3. Improved program scalability

4. Improved user experience in certain scenarios

5. Because PHP does not support multi-threading, using asynchronous calls to request multiple HTTPs achieves the effect of parallel execution of the program. However, please note that if too many HTTP requests are requested, the system overhead will be greatly increased

Common ways of asynchronous execution in PHP:

1. The client page uses AJAX technology to request the server

1. The simplest way is to embed an AJAX call in the HTML code returned to the client, or embed an img tag with src pointing to the time-consuming script to be executed.
This method is the simplest and fastest. The server does not need to make any calls.
But the disadvantage is that generally speaking, Ajax should be triggered after onLoad. That is to say, if the user clicks on the page and then closes it, our background script will not be triggered.
If you use the img tag, this method cannot be called asynchronous execution in the strict sense. The user's browser will wait for a long time for the execution of the php script to be completed, that is, the status bar of the user's browser always shows that it is still loading.
Of course, you can also use other methods with similar principles, such as script tags, etc.

2.popen() function

resource popen (string command, string mode);
//Open a pipe to the process spawned by forking the given command command execution. Opens a pipe to the process spawned by forking the execution of the given command command.

So you can call it but ignore its output.

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pclose(popen( "/home/xinchen/backend.php &" , 'r' ));
This method avoids the disadvantages of the first method and is also fast. But the problem is that this method cannot request another WebService through the HTTP protocol and can only execute local script files. And it can only be opened in one direction, and cannot pass a large number of parameters to the called script.

And if the number of visits is high, a large number of processes will be generated. If you use external resources, you have to consider the competition yourself.

3.CURL extension

CURL is a powerful HTTP command line tool that can simulate HTTP requests such as POST/GET, then obtain and extract data, and display it on "standard output" (stdout)

$ch = curl_init();
$curl_opt = array(CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com/backend.php',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1,);

curl_setopt_array($ch, $curl_opt);

curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
To use CURL, you need to set CUROPT_TIMEOUT to 1 (the minimum is 1, depressed). That is, the client must wait at least 1 second.

4.fscokopen() function

fsockopen is a very powerful function that supports socket programming. You can use fsockopen to implement socket programs such as email sending, etc. To use fcockopen, you need to manually splice the header part yourself

Official documentation: http://cn.php.net/fsockopen/

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$fp = fsockopen ( "www.2cto.com" , 80, $errno , $errstr , 30);
if (! $fp ) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)
n" ;
} else {
$out = "GET /backend.php / HTTP/1.1rn" ;
$out .= "Host: www.2cto.comrn" ;
$out .= "Connection: Closernrn" ;

fwrite( $fp , $out );
/*Ignore execution results
While (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
      }*/
         fclose( $fp );
}


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