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
    }

?>

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
    }

?>

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

pthreads PECL扩展使使用线程成为可能

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

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();

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);
}