In one of my scripti i use processes in same time. For example think like downloading 10 files in same time. Think files as processes. I won't download something. I will grab daha with curl from a website. I checked google for this i saw curl_multi but i couldn't find good article about it . Is there someone that has experience about this ?
I don't think curl_multi(_select?) has anything to do with this, but I could be wrong. However, if your PHP installation (or the one at your hoster) allows it, you should be able to use fork() or & to create processes, for instance; <? $pidlist = array(); for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) { // just for testing 10 'downloads' $pid = pcntl_fork(); if (!$pid) { sleep(rand(0,5)); // just for testing, remove echo "Do the curl download here! $i\n"; exit; } else { $pidlist[] = $pid; } } // make sure there are no zombies foreach($pidlist as $pid) { pcntl_waitpid($pid, $status); echo "Done\n"; } echo "Do something with the downloads here\n"; ?> Or, when you have an external download program; $some_param = "bla"; for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) `my_download_script.php $some_param &`; Hope this helps a bit.