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Simple API for starting non blocking jobs.

SemiThread

Right now this stuff works only under *nix systems. It's simple wrapper API for nohup exec call.

If you want i.e. send an email in process not attached to request/response cycle it is for you.

Installation

If you don’t have Composer yet, you should get it now.

1. Add the package to your composer.json:

    "require": {
      ...
      "aaugustyniak/semithread": "1.0.0",
      ...
    }
   

2. Install:

    $ php composer.phar install
   

3. And use:

First of all You must provide your implementations of:

• Aaugustyniak\SemiThread\Cloneable
• Aaugustyniak\SemiThread\SemiThread

examples are provided in Aaugustyniak\SemiThread\ExampleImpl.

		<?php 
		
		require_once "vendor/autoload.php";
		
		$payload = new StringPayload("This is Payload");
        $envelope = new ConfinedEnvelope($payload);
        $thread = new WriterThread($envelope);
        /**
         * Optional, redirect jobs output to file 
         */ 
        $thread->setOutput('/some/path/semi_threads.out');
        $thread->start();
        echo "Main process output\n";
		...