Executing functions in parallel

Question

I have a function that needs to go over around 20K rows from an array, and apply an external script to each. This is a slow process, as PHP is waiting for the script to be e

Answer 1

If you'd like to execute parallel tasks in PHP, I would consider using Gearman. Another approach would be to use pcntl_fork(), but I'd prefer actual workers when it's task based.