Parallel processing in PHP - How do you do it?

Question

I am currently trying to implement a job queue in php. The queue will then be processed as a batch job and should be able to process some jobs in parallel.

I already

Answer 1

i use exec(). Its easy and clean. You basically need to build a thread manager, and thread scripts, that will do what you need.

I dont like fsockopen() because it will open a server connection, that will build up and may hit the apache's connection limit

I dont like curl functions for the same reason

I dont like pnctl because it needs the pnctl extension available, and you have to keep track of parent/child relations.

never played with gearman...