Chapter 7: Event Loops in PHP
by Christopher Pitt
PHP developers are always waiting for something. Sometimes we’re waiting for requests to remote services. Sometimes we’re waiting for databases to return rows from a complex query. Wouldn’t it be great if we could do other things during all that waiting?
If you’ve written some JS, you’re probably familiar with callbacks and DOM events. And though we have callbacks in PHP, they don’t work in quite the same way. That’s thanks to a feature called the event loop.
We’re going to look at how the event loop works, and how we can use the event loop in PHP.
We’re going to see some interesting PHP libraries. Some would consider these not yet stable enough to use in production. Some would consider the ...
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