Or in programming for that matter? This is the term, I keep hearing a lot these days, and even though I Google to find out, but I can't find a beginner-friendly answer. My knowledge, about programming does not extend more than PHP, even that is scripting, but I have yet to understand the most basic concept, and purpose of thread, threading, pthread in php (I am thinking they all mean the same)
threading or multithreading is parallel process of 2 or more codes or programs. In php there is no real multithreading and it's not necessary. Because you trying to keep light codes with very sort time of execution to save resources from your server. This is a good link to explain how the thing goes with php and multithreading via "pseudo". http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/254
Wrong ... http://docs.php.net/Thread If you really have never heard of multi-threading before, I'm not really sure I can give you a good starting place ... but I'll try ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading_(software)#Multithreading Read the first paragraph of that wikipedia entry for a general explanation multi-threading, then read https://gist.github.com/krakjoe/6437782/ If there's anything you've heard up to this point that you really do not understand, then research it, there's no time like the present to learn. Then look at all the examples that come with pthreads (on github https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads/), then if you're not feeling overwhelmed, have a ruddy go