PHP Icicle\Concurrent\Threading Thread::spawn Examples

spawn() public static method

Spawns a new thread and runs it.

public static spawn ( callable $function, $args ) : Thread
$function	callable	The callable to invoke in the thread.
return	Thread	The thread object that was spawned.

Example #1

File: thread.php Project: Nik-ADA/concurrent

$timer = Loop\periodic(1, function () {
    static $i;
    $i = $i ? ++$i : 1;
    print "Demonstrating how alive the parent is for the {$i}th time.\n";
});

Coroutine\create(function () {
    // Create a new child thread that does some blocking stuff.
    $context = Thread::spawn(function () {
        printf("\$this: %s\n", get_class($this));

        printf("Received the following from parent: %s\n", (yield $this->receive()));

        print "Sleeping for 3 seconds...\n";
        sleep(3); // Blocking call in thread.

        yield $this->send('Data sent from child.');

        print "Sleeping for 2 seconds...\n";
        sleep(2); // Blocking call in thread.

        yield 42;
    });

    print "Waiting 2 seconds to send start data...\n";
    yield Coroutine\sleep(2);

    yield $context->send('Start data');

    printf("Received the following from child: %s\n", (yield $context->receive()));
    printf("Thread ended with value %d!\n", (yield $context->join()));