Re: Is there any way to listen to NOTIFY in php without polling?

Thanks Janes...

I am not a C developer - was not aware about select()... I was read it as
some kind of sleep...

Than Clemens explained to me what select() does...

However - to me it is just implementation detail... Which is possible in
one language, but not in another...

But technically, is the loop inside select() - or outside is irrelevant to
me (i see the benefit... Though, not sure the benefit - is that
big...nowdays.....)

From my point of view - what is important - is the main goal what should be
achieved...

If with resources what I have (php - though I am not php developer either)
I dont have the same power like in another language - who cares - main goal
must be achived . things work - or dont, but we must make them work :)

I am just curious:

LISTEN foo
Select()

Another client says: NOTIFY bar

Will select() - get something from server?

Thanks,

Misa

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Jasen Betts wrote:

> On 2013-03-27, Misa Simic <misa(dot)simic(at)gmail(dot)com <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > Hi Clemens,
> >
> > Well, I am not sure what you mean by polling...
> >
> > But Example shows - that C app - actually asks all the time to get
> > notify... when gets something more then 4 times - exit... until 4 times
> > loops...
>
> that's polling.
>
> I just do a select() on the socket and the select either times out or
> lets me know something has come from the server. then I call whatever
> it is to check for notifies.
>
> > The same you can achieve with PHP...
>
> except PHP doesn't have select() and hides the socket.
>
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