Hey ya'll coder type peoples - got a question that I'm pretty sure someone here can help out with. I'm having an app developed that will spider "certain things" from "certain sites" - currently going through the bidding process on odesk and have a guy that seems to know what he's talking about bidding on my project.
Oddly enough he's the only one suggesting the use of PHP/CURL as the basis for the app (most are talking C/.net/windows based etc) I know enough about PHP to know it doesn't natively support multi-threading which is one of the crucial things for my app. I asked him if PHP would work for multi threading.
This was his reply
So - is he full of shit or can it actually function well like this? For some reason my BS alarm is going off on this guy.
Oddly enough he's the only one suggesting the use of PHP/CURL as the basis for the app (most are talking C/.net/windows based etc) I know enough about PHP to know it doesn't natively support multi-threading which is one of the crucial things for my app. I asked him if PHP would work for multi threading.
This was his reply
Hi
You are right, there is no built-in support for multithreading but we can achieve it by splitting the task to multiple jobs(files) and a separate php process will run each job simulataneously
So - is he full of shit or can it actually function well like this? For some reason my BS alarm is going off on this guy.