PHP has no support for threads

Notes from Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle:

• PHP: no native support for multithreads
• Alternative:pcntl_fork() creates child process
• The moment pcntl_fork() called, a new process is created
• In parent process, pcntl_fork() returns process ID of the newly created child, in the child, it returns 0.

More details here: Creating and Managing Child Processes

Comments

[maorkavod]

PHP has support for multithreads :
github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

[Aldora]

the key of this is that does php has native support for multithreads