Monday, February 26, 2018

PHP 7 - execute code while waiting for curl

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The following is my working code sample. Just add your own sleep.php which will sleep($_GET['sleep']);

class MultiCurl {     private $mc;     private $running;     private $execStatus;      public function __construct() {         $this->mc = curl_multi_init();     }      public function addCurl($ch) {         $code = curl_multi_add_handle($this->mc, $ch);          if ($code === CURLM_OK || $code === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM) {             do {                 $this->execStatus = curl_multi_exec($this->mc, $this->running);             } while ($this->execStatus === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);              return $this->getKey($ch);         }         return null;     }      public function getNextResult() {         if ($this->running) {             while ($this->running && ($this->execStatus == CURLM_OK || $this->execStatus == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM)) {                 usleep(2500);                 curl_multi_exec($this->mc, $this->running);                  $responses = $this->readResponses();                 if ($responses !== null) {                     return $responses;                 }             }         } else {             return $this->readResponses();         }          return null;     }      private function readResponses() {         $responses = [];         while ($done = curl_multi_info_read($this->mc)) {             $key = $this->getKey($done['handle']);              $done['response'] = curl_multi_getcontent($done['handle']);             $done['info'] = curl_getinfo($done['handle']);             $error = curl_error($done['handle']);             if ($error) {                 $done['error'] = $error;             }              $responses[$key] = $done;              curl_multi_remove_handle($this->mc, $done['handle']);             curl_close($done['handle']);         }          if (!empty($responses)) {             return $responses;         }          return null;     }      private function getKey($ch) {         return (string)$ch;     } }  function getHandle($url) {     $ch = curl_init();     curl_setopt_array($ch, [         CURLOPT_URL => $url,         CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,         CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 5     ]);     return $ch; }  $totalTime = microtime(true);  $multi = new MultiCurl();  $keys = []; $addCurlHandles = microtime(true); $keys[] = $multi->addCurl(getHandle('http://localhost/sleep.php?sleep=5')); for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {     $keys[] = $multi->addCurl(getHandle('http://localhost/sleep.php?sleep=' . random_int(1, 4))); } echo 'Add curl handles: ' . (microtime(true) - $addCurlHandles) . "\n";  /**/ $loop = microtime(true); while (microtime(true) - $loop < 2) {     usleep(100); } echo 'Loop: ' . (microtime(true) - $loop) . "\n"; /**/  $getResults = microtime(true); while ($result = $multi->getNextResult()) {     foreach ($result as $key => $response) {         echo $response['response'] . "\n";     } } echo 'Get results: ' . (microtime(true) - $getResults) . "\n";  echo 'Total time: ' . (microtime(true) - $totalTime) . "\n"; 

Now play around with the for loop calling $multi->addCurl. When I add 4 handles, the output is something like

Add curl handles: 0.0007021427154541 Loop: 2.0000491142273 Slept 1 Slept 3 Slept 3 Slept 4 Slept 5 Get results: 5.0043671131134 Total time: 7.0052678585052 

But when I add 5 or more, the output is

Add curl handles: 0.0014941692352295 Loop: 2.00008893013 Slept 1 Slept 2 Slept 4 Slept 4 Slept 4 Slept 5 Get results: 3.0007629394531 Total time: 5.0025300979614 

As you can see, the later does more work but finishes faster because the 5 second sleep request was actually sent before the 2 second while loop started working.

With the smaller number of handles, calling curl_multi_select and curl_multi_exec in a loop until curl_multi_select doesn't return -1 has resolved this but it's very unreliable. It doesn't work at all on another computer and will sometimes get stuck with curl_multi_select always returning -1.

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Answers 1

I have found a hack solution. It is to check pretransfer_time using curl_getinfo.

I have published the source code on github: https://github.com/rinu/multi-curl

Better, cleaner solutions are still very welcome.

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