ZerusTech Pthreads Tutorial

This is a tutorial of the krakjoe/pthreads extension v3 for PHP7.

Installation

Follow the instructions below:

$ cd <php-source-directory>
$ ./configure --enable-maintainer-zts ...
$ make
$ make install

Download the latest 3.x release from Pecl

$ cd <php-source-directory>/ext
$ mkdir pthreads
$ tar zxf <path-to-pthreads-src-tarball> -C pthreads --strip-components=1
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ # This will install the pthreads.so to php extension directory
$ # load pthreads.so in php.ini

Examples

• Tests/Pthreads/BasicProducerConsumerTest.php - a producer/consumer example with threads.

• Tests/Pthreads/WorkerProducerConsumer.php - a producer/consumer example with threads and workers.

• Tests/Pthreads/PoolProducerConsumer.php - a producer/consumer example with threads, workers and pools.

• Tests/Pthreads/IssueArrayPropertyTest.php - an example to demonstrate array can't be used as properties of threaded object.

• Tests/Pthreads/IssueNonThreadedPropertyTest.php - an example to demonstrate how non-threaded properties are broken in multi-threading environment.

• Tests/Pthreads/Issue602Test.php - The script for reproducing issue #602.

• Tests/Pthreads/Issue603Test.php - The script for reproducing issue #603.

• Tests/Pthreads/IssueLocalVariableTest.php - The script to demonstrate local variables in pthreads are destroyed.

• Tests/Pthreads/PropertyOfThreadedAndVolatileTest.php - The script to demonstrate different accessibilities of threaded and volatile objects.

References

• The krakjoe/pthreads Project
• Issue #602
• Issue #603

License

The ZerusTech Pthreads Tutorial is published under the MIT License.