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| promise | async | |
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| 1 | 2 | |
| 2,339 | 175 | |
| 0.7% | 2.3% | |
| 4.7 | 3.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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promise
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Is it possible that PHP will ever get async/await functions?
Promises are a solution to asynchronicity in general. Promises are more of a specification, so anything claiming to implement Promises solves the same class of problem in the same way. Since php doesn't have language level wrappers for Await behavior it is going to look weird. Either you use something Object Oriented like Promises to handle the timing/async of your calls, or you use something functional like the pcntl functions to handle Process Control of multiple interdependent processes and the pipes/sockets between them. There are also separate Asnycronous libraries available that have a slightly different interface, but they probably just use promises in the backend. See https://github.com/reactphp/async and https://github.com/reactphp/promise for instance if you don't like curl.
async
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Is it possible that PHP will ever get async/await functions?
Promises are a solution to asynchronicity in general. Promises are more of a specification, so anything claiming to implement Promises solves the same class of problem in the same way. Since php doesn't have language level wrappers for Await behavior it is going to look weird. Either you use something Object Oriented like Promises to handle the timing/async of your calls, or you use something functional like the pcntl functions to handle Process Control of multiple interdependent processes and the pipes/sockets between them. There are also separate Asnycronous libraries available that have a slightly different interface, but they probably just use promises in the backend. See https://github.com/reactphp/async and https://github.com/reactphp/promise for instance if you don't like curl.
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What have fibers been used for so far?
ReactPHP uses Fibers through react/async starting from version 4 of the library.
What are some alternatives?
socket - Async, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client connections for ReactPHP.
parallel - An advanced parallelization library for PHP, enabling efficient multitasking, optimizing resource use, and application responsiveness through multiple CPU threads.
async - Easily run code asynchronously
React - Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.
ext-openswoole - Programmatic server for PHP with async IO, coroutines and fibers
asynchronous-php - List of resources for asynchronous programming in PHP
promises - Promises/A+ library for PHP with synchronous support
framework-x - Framework X – the simple and fast micro framework for building reactive web applications that run anywhere.
moebius - True coroutines for PHP>=8.1 without worrying about event loops and callbacks.