Is it possible that PHP will ever get async/await functions?

• promises

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  Promises/A+ library for PHP with synchronous support

  

• ext-openswoole

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These can be performed concurrently in PHP with Swoole https://openswoole.com/

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• React

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  Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.

  

Dunno about PHP core, but there is also ReactPHP. https://reactphp.org/

• Amp

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  A non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP applications. 🐘

  

If you want async/await behavior in PHP, you have https://amphp.org/amp/.

• async

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  Async utilities and fibers for ReactPHP. (by reactphp)

  

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.

• promise

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  Promises/A implementation for PHP. (by reactphp)

  

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.

• parallel

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  An advanced parallelization library for PHP, enabling efficient multitasking, optimizing resource use, and application responsiveness through multiple CPU threads. (by amphp)

  

You can leverage https://github.com/amphp/parallel or https://github.com/spatie/async without changing the app much.

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• async

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  Easily run code asynchronously (by spatie)

  

You can leverage https://github.com/amphp/parallel or https://github.com/spatie/async without changing the app much.

• asynchronous-php

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