虽然不能使用线程，但在php中确实有某种程度的进程控制。这里有用的两个函数集是:

过程控制功能 http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php

POSIX函数 http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.posix.php

你可以用pcntl_fork来分叉你的进程——返回子进程的PID。然后你可以使用posix_kill来处理这个PID。

也就是说，如果你终止了父进程，就应该向子进程发送一个信号，告诉它终止。如果php本身没有识别这一点，你可以注册一个函数来管理它，并使用pcntl_signal做一个干净的退出。

您可以使用exec()来运行命令行脚本(例如命令行php)，如果您将输出管道到一个文件，那么您的脚本将不会等待命令完成。

我不太记得php CLI的语法，但你会想要这样的东西:

exec("/path/to/php -f '/path/to/file.php' | '/path/to/output.txt'");

我认为相当多的共享托管服务器出于安全原因默认禁用了exec()，但可能值得一试。

常规PHP中没有线程，但是通过使用HTTP请求作为异步调用，可以实现并发编程。

将curl的超时设置设置为1，并为您希望相互关联的进程使用相同的session_id，您可以与会话变量通信，如下面的示例所示。使用这种方法，您甚至可以关闭浏览器，而并发进程仍然存在于服务器上。

不要忘记像这样验证正确的会话ID:

http://localhost/test/verifysession.php?sessionid=[正确的id]

startprocess.php

$request = "http://localhost/test/process1.php?sessionid=".$_REQUEST["PHPSESSID"];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $_REQUEST["PHPSESSID"];

process1.php

set_time_limit(0);

if ($_REQUEST["sessionid"])
   session_id($_REQUEST["sessionid"]);

function checkclose()
{
   global $_SESSION;
   if ($_SESSION["closesession"])
   {
       unset($_SESSION["closesession"]);
       die();
   }
}

while(!$close)
{
   session_start();
   $_SESSION["test"] = rand();
   checkclose();
   session_write_close();
   sleep(5);
}

verifysession.php

if ($_REQUEST["sessionid"])
    session_id($_REQUEST["sessionid"]);

session_start();
var_dump($_SESSION);

closeprocess.php

if ($_REQUEST["sessionid"])
    session_id($_REQUEST["sessionid"]);

session_start();
$_SESSION["closesession"] = true;
var_dump($_SESSION);

您可以模拟线程。PHP可以通过popen(或proc_open)运行后台进程。这些进程可以通过stdin和stdout进行通信。当然，这些进程本身也可以是一个php程序。这可能是你能找到的最接近的了。

为什么不用popen?

for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) {
    // open ten processes
    for ($j = 0; $j < 10; $j++) {
        $pipe[$j] = popen('script2.php', 'w');
    }

    // wait for them to finish
    for ($j = 0; $j < 10; ++$j) {
        pclose($pipe[$j]);
    }
}

取决于你要做什么，你也可以使用curl_multi来实现它。

您可以选择:

multi_curl 可以使用系统命令来实现相同的功能 理想的情况是，用C语言创建一个线程函数，然后用PHP编译/配置。这个函数是PHP的函数。

那么pcntl_fork呢?

检查我们的手册页的例子:PHP pcntl_fork

<?php

    $pid = pcntl_fork();
    if ($pid == -1) {
        die('could not fork');
    } else if ($pid) {
        // we are the parent
        pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
    } else {
        // we are the child
    }

?>

如果Pcntl_fork开启了安全模式，它将无法在web服务器环境中工作。在这种情况下，它只能在CLI版本的PHP中工作。

我知道这是一个老问题，但对于搜索的人来说，有一个用C编写的PECL扩展，现在提供了PHP多线程功能，它位于https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

警告:这个扩展被认为是不可维护和死亡的。 警告:pthreads扩展不能在web服务器环境中使用。因此，PHP中的线程只局限于基于cli的应用程序。 警告:pthreads (v3)只能在PHP 7.2+中使用:这是因为ZTS模式在7.0和7.1中是不安全的。

https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pthreads.php

多线程在php中是可能的

是的，你可以用pthreads在PHP中实现多线程

来自PHP文档:

pthreads是一个面向对象的API，它提供了PHP多线程所需的所有工具。PHP应用程序可以创建、读取、写入、执行和同步线程、工作者和线程对象。 警告: pthreads扩展不能在web服务器环境中使用。因此，PHP中的线程应该只适用于基于cli的应用程序。

简单的测试

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
class AsyncOperation extends Thread {

    public function __construct($arg) {
        $this->arg = $arg;
    }

    public function run() {
        if ($this->arg) {
            $sleep = mt_rand(1, 10);
            printf('%s: %s  -start -sleeps %d' . "\n", date("g:i:sa"), $this->arg, $sleep);
            sleep($sleep);
            printf('%s: %s  -finish' . "\n", date("g:i:sa"), $this->arg);
        }
    }
}

// Create a array
$stack = array();

//Initiate Multiple Thread
foreach ( range("A", "D") as $i ) {
    $stack[] = new AsyncOperation($i);
}

// Start The Threads
foreach ( $stack as $t ) {
    $t->start();
}

?>

第一次运行

12:00:06pm:     A  -start -sleeps 5
12:00:06pm:     B  -start -sleeps 3
12:00:06pm:     C  -start -sleeps 10
12:00:06pm:     D  -start -sleeps 2
12:00:08pm:     D  -finish
12:00:09pm:     B  -finish
12:00:11pm:     A  -finish
12:00:16pm:     C  -finish

第二次运行

12:01:36pm:     A  -start -sleeps 6
12:01:36pm:     B  -start -sleeps 1
12:01:36pm:     C  -start -sleeps 2
12:01:36pm:     D  -start -sleeps 1
12:01:37pm:     B  -finish
12:01:37pm:     D  -finish
12:01:38pm:     C  -finish
12:01:42pm:     A  -finish

现实世界中的例子

error_reporting(E_ALL);
class AsyncWebRequest extends Thread {
    public $url;
    public $data;

    public function __construct($url) {
        $this->url = $url;
    }

    public function run() {
        if (($url = $this->url)) {
            /*
             * If a large amount of data is being requested, you might want to
             * fsockopen and read using usleep in between reads
             */
            $this->data = file_get_contents($url);
        } else
            printf("Thread #%lu was not provided a URL\n", $this->getThreadId());
    }
}

$t = microtime(true);
$g = new AsyncWebRequest(sprintf("http://www.google.com/?q=%s", rand() * 10));
/* starting synchronization */
if ($g->start()) {
    printf("Request took %f seconds to start ", microtime(true) - $t);
    while ( $g->isRunning() ) {
        echo ".";
        usleep(100);
    }
    if ($g->join()) {
        printf(" and %f seconds to finish receiving %d bytes\n", microtime(true) - $t, strlen($g->data));
    } else
        printf(" and %f seconds to finish, request failed\n", microtime(true) - $t);
}

pthreads PECL扩展使使用线程成为可能

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php

多线程意味着同时执行多个任务或进程，我们可以通过使用以下代码在php中实现这一点，尽管在php中没有直接的方法来实现多线程，但我们可以通过以下方法实现几乎相同的结果。

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));  //if you want to run this file as cron job
 for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i += 1){
 exec("php test_1.php $i > test.txt &");
 //this will execute test_1.php and will leave this process executing in the background and will go         

 //to next iteration of the loop immediately without waiting the completion of the script in the   

 //test_1.php , $i  is passed as argument .

}

Test_1.php

$conn=mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);
$db=mysql_select_db($db);
$i = $argv[1];  //this is the argument passed from index.php file
for($j = 0;$j<5000; $j ++)
{
mysql_query("insert  into  test   set

                id='$i',

                comment='test',

                datetime=NOW() ");

}

这将同时执行test_1.php两次，两个进程将同时在后台运行，因此通过这种方式，您可以在php中实现多线程。

这个人在php多线程方面做得很好

As of the writing of my current comment, I don't know about the PHP threads. I came to look for the answer here myself, but one workaround is that the PHP program that receives the request from the web server delegates the whole answer formulation to a console application that stores its output, the answer to the request, to a binary file and the PHP program that launched the console application returns that binary file byte-by-byte as the answer to the received request. The console application can be written in any programming language that runs on the server, including those that have proper threading support, including C++ programs that use OpenMP.

一个不可靠的，肮脏的技巧是使用PHP来执行控制台应用程序，"uname"，

uname -a

and print the output of that console command to the HTML output to find out the exact version of the server software. Then install the exact same version of the software to a VirtualBox instance, compile/assemble whatever fully self-contained, preferably static, binaries that one wants and then upload those to the server. From that point onwards the PHP application can use those binaries in the role of the console application that has proper multi-threading. It's a dirty, unreliable, workaround to a situation, when the server administrator has not installed all needed programming language implementations to the server. The thing to watch out for is that at every request that the PHP application receives the console application(s) terminates/exit/get_killed.

As to what the hosting service administrators think of such server usage patterns, I guess it boils down to culture. In Northern Europe the service provider HAS TO DELIVER WHAT WAS ADVERTISED and if execution of console commands was allowed and uploading of non-malware files was allowed and the service provider has a right to kill any server process after a few minutes or even after 30 seconds, then the hosting service administrators lack any arguments for forming a proper complaint. In United States and Western Europe the situation/culture is very different and I believe that there's a great chance that in U.S. and/or Western Europe the hosting service provider will refuse to serve hosting service clients that use the above described trick. That's just my guess, given my personal experience with U.S. hosting services and given what I have heard from others about Western European hosting services. As of the writing of my current comment(2018_09_01) I do not know anything about the cultural norms of the Southern-European hosting service providers, Southern-European network administrators.

如果您正在使用Linux服务器，则可以使用

exec("nohup $php_path path/script.php > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &")

如果你需要传递一些参数

exec("nohup $php_path path/script.php $args > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &")

在script.php

$args = $argv[1];

或者使用Symfony https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/process.html

$process = Process::fromShellCommandline("php ".base_path('script.php'));
$process->setTimeout(0);     
$process->disableOutput();     
$process->start();

我知道这是一个老问题，但毫无疑问，PHPThreads对许多人都很有用

代码示例:

function threadproc($thread, $param) {
 
    echo "\tI'm a PHPThread.  In this example, I was given only one parameter: \"". print_r($param, true) ."\" to work with, but I can accept as many as you'd like!\n";
 
    for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
        usleep(1000000);
        echo "\tPHPThread working, very busy...\n";
    }
 
    return "I'm a return value!";
}
 

$thread_id = phpthread_create($thread, array(), "threadproc", null, array("123456"));
 
echo "I'm the main thread doing very important work!\n";
 
for ($n = 0; $n < 5; $n++) {
    usleep(1000000);
    echo "Main thread...working!\n";
}
 
echo "\nMain thread done working.  Waiting on our PHPThread...\n";
 
phpthread_join($thread_id, $retval);
 
echo "\n\nOur PHPThread returned: " . print_r($retval, true) . "!\n";

需要PHP扩展:

posix pcntl 套接字

我已经在生产中使用这个库好几个月了。我花了很多精力让它看起来像在使用POSIX pthread。如果您熟悉pthread，那么您可以立即学习并非常有效地使用它。

在计算上，内部工作方式有很大不同，但实际上，功能几乎是相同的，包括语义和语法。

我用它编写了一个非常高效的WebSocket服务器，支持高吞吐率。对不起，我跑题了。我只是很兴奋，我终于把它发布了，我想看看它会帮助谁!

popen()/proc_open()即使在Windows中也可以并行工作。

最常见的陷阱是“fread/stream_get_contents”没有while循环。一旦你试图从正在运行的进程中fread()，它将阻塞在它之后运行的进程的输出(因为fread()等待至少一个字节到达)

添加stream_select()。最接近的类比是“foreach with timeout but for streams”，你传递几个数组来读写，每次调用stream_select()都会选择一个或多个流。函数通过引用更新原始数组，所以不要忘记在下次调用之前将其恢复到所有流。函数给它们一些时间来读或写。如果没有内容控制返回，允许我们重试循环。

// sleep.php
set_error_handler(function ($severity, $error, $file, $line) {
    throw new ErrorException($error, -1, $severity, $file, $line);
});

$sleep = $argv[ 1 ];

sleep($sleep);

echo $sleep . PHP_EOL;

exit(0);

// run.php
<?php

$procs = [];
$pipes = [];

$cmd = 'php %cd%/sleep.php';

$desc = [
    0 => [ 'pipe', 'r' ],
    1 => [ 'pipe', 'w' ],
    2 => [ 'pipe', 'a' ],
];

for ( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ ) {
    $iCmd = $cmd . ' ' . ( 10 - $i ); // add SLEEP argument to each command 10, 9, ... etc.

    $proc = proc_open($iCmd, $desc, $pipes[ $i ], __DIR__);

    $procs[ $i ] = $proc;
}

$stdins = array_column($pipes, 0);
$stdouts = array_column($pipes, 1);
$stderrs = array_column($pipes, 2);

while ( $procs ) {
    foreach ( $procs as $i => $proc ) {
        // @gzhegow > [OR] you can output while script is running (if child never finishes)
        $read = [ $stdins[ $i ] ];
        $write = [ $stdouts[ $i ], $stderrs[ $i ] ];
        $except = [];
        if (stream_select($read, $write, $except, $seconds = 0, $microseconds = 1000)) {
            foreach ( $write as $stream ) {
                echo stream_get_contents($stream);
            }
        }

        $status = proc_get_status($proc);

        if (false === $status[ 'running' ]) {
            $status = proc_close($proc);
            unset($procs[ $i ]);

            echo 'STATUS: ' . $status . PHP_EOL;
        }

        // @gzhegow > [OR] you can output once command finishes
        // $status = proc_get_status($proc);
        //
        // if (false === $status[ 'running' ]) {
        //     if ($content = stream_get_contents($stderrs[ $i ])) {
        //         echo '[ERROR]' . $content . PHP_EOL;
        //     }
        //
        //     echo stream_get_contents($stdouts[ $i ]) . PHP_EOL;
        //
        //     $status = proc_close($proc);
        //     unset($procs[ $i ]);
        //
        //     echo 'STATUS: ' . $status . PHP_EOL;
        // }
    }

    usleep(1); // give your computer one tick to decide what thread should be used
}

// ensure you receive 1,2,3... but you've just run it 10,9,8...

exit(0);