How to make asynchronous HTTP requests in PHP

Question

Is there a way in PHP to make asynchronous HTTP calls? I don\'t care about the response, I just want to do something like file_get_contents(), but not wait for

Answer 1

Well, the timeout can be set in milliseconds, see "CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS" in http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt