yes u can php does not have inbuilt support for multithreading many class libraries are available for this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70855/how-can-one-use-multi-threading-in-php-applications i hope it helps Regards Alex
PHP process run on single thread natively. CMIIW. So it's better if you just use single thread and queuing your job with cron or something else to process your thing.