PHP from CLI using Curl Multi Exec - php

Question

In the code below from http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-multi-init.php
How can I add code before the second request is made (ie sleep(5)) before curl makes the request to twitter)
Regards
<?php
// create both cURL resources
$ch1 = curl_init();
$ch2 = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.google.com");
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, "https://twitter.com");
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
//create the multiple cURL handle
$mh = curl_multi_init();
//add the two handles
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch2);
$active = null;
//execute the handles
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
if (curl_multi_select($mh) != -1) {
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
}
}
//close the handles
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch1);
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch2);
curl_multi_close($mh);
?>

Answer 1

I'm no PHP guy or competent programmer for that matter :D Now that disclaimer is out there, here's my solution.
There's probably a much cleaner way to do this but I have limited knowledge of PHP and how to extend classes. For that reason, I decided to use the built-in process control extensions and create a helper function to handle the curl process. I'm sure there are much better programmers out there ready to provide a much cleaner solution though.
<?php
// Helper function
function async_curl($url,$delay){
sleep($delay);
echo "FORK: Getting $url after $delay seconds\n";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
// Mute the return for demonstration purposes.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
$urls = array("http://google.com","http://twitter.com","http://www.facebook.com");
foreach($urls as $url){
// Generate random timeout for demonstration purposes.
$delay = rand(1,20);
// Create a forked child process for each URL
$pid = pcntl_fork();
// Exit if fork failed
if ($pid == -1) {
exit("Error, failed to create a child process for the URL: $url");
// Create a single child process to call the helper function
} else if ($pid == 0) {
echo "MAIN: Forking process for $url\nPID: " .getmypid() . "\tDelay: $delay\n";
async_curl($url,$delay);
exit();
}
}
// Wait for all forked processes to complete before exiting.
while (($pid = pcntl_waitpid(0, $status)) > 0) {
echo "MAIN: Process $pid completed\n";
}
?>