Async PHP

A few days ago, our lovely Development Manager asked me to share at Show and Tell. It’s a Friday-event where a couple of people, here at SilverStripe, talk a bit about some of the recent work they’ve done.

Creating reactive applications is hard. As a community, we PHP developers have been writing blocking code behind web servers like Apache and Nginx, for ages. We’re just not used to using the event-loop and reducing/removing blocking IO.

Given the case for asynchronous PHP, you may be keen to try it but unsure where to start. Perhaps you’ve been working on an API, and you want to add socket support. Let me show you how!

You can find the code on Github. You can find the discussion on Reddit. You should…