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420 points solcloud | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.628s | source
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bilekas ◴[22 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41917247[source]▶
This is wild... PHP server with electron client.. I'm genuinely impressed. It's been many years since I worked with PHP. Back in the days before proper namespaces etc. This just blows my mind. What an incredible effort, I will definitely be helping with this project in my free time. We need more crazy projects like this!
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1. treflop ◴[23 Oct 24 05:43 UTC] No.41922154[source]▶
You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol)

You could make asynchronous servers using socket_select(), which was added in PHP 4.1.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php

There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

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2. diggan ◴[23 Oct 24 12:16 UTC] No.41924204[source]▶
> There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

Reminds me of ReactPHP (no, not that React) that allowed you to do non-blocking I/O in PHP back in like 2012-2013 sometime. Maybe that's the library you're referring to actually?

https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp

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3. treflop ◴[23 Oct 24 14:36 UTC] No.41925456[source]▶
I mean actual threads.

Seems they still have the docs up: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php