socket
Async, streaming plaintext TCP/IP and secure TLS socket server and client connections for ReactPHP. (by reactphp)
promise
Promises/A implementation for PHP. (by reactphp)
socket | promise | |
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1 | 1 | |
1,158 | 2,339 | |
1.0% | 0.8% | |
5.2 | 4.7 | |
3 months ago | 6 days ago | |
PHP | PHP | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
socket
Posts with mentions or reviews of socket.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-08.
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Weekly help thread
Sockets: https://github.com/reactphp/socket WebSocket: https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet
promise
Posts with mentions or reviews of promise.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-27.
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing socket and promise you can also consider the following projects:
Ratchet - Asynchronous WebSocket server
parallel - An advanced parallelization library for PHP, enabling efficient multitasking, optimizing resource use, and application responsiveness through multiple CPU threads.
PHP-watcher - Monitor for any changes in your php application and automatically restart it (suitable for async apps).
async - Async utilities and fibers for ReactPHP.
ReactPHP Promises Testing - PHPUnit assertions for testing ReactPHP promises
child-process - Event-driven library for executing child processes with ReactPHP.
event-loop - ReactPHP's core reactor event loop that libraries can use for evented I/O.