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Re:Node.js and the new web front-end by anonymoushn on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:22PM (#6510152)
Is it actually impossible to query the DB asynchronously in PHP?
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Re:Node.js and the new web front-end by k3n on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:06PM (#6510840)
Not impossible, but not easy either considering PHP is single-threaded and synchronous.
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Re:Node.js and the new web front-end by anonymoushn on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:00PM (#6511218)
I've never heard of languages being synchronous or asynchronous before. It looks like PHP ships with asynchronous DB APIs.
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Re:Node.js and the new web front-end by k3n on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:34PM (#6512462)
Ok, poor example; just consider that it's single-threaded. Pretty much the only threading support is by way of a young PECL extension called pthreads[1], which is still experimental and dangerous. Otherwise, you can use the PCTL extension[2], if you don't mind compiling PHP yourself (and if you're not on Windows, where it's not supported).

1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pthreads.php

2. http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcntl.installation.php

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