Async Landscape: Multitasking with Asynchronous PHP

Presenters
Date
Nov 01, 2018

We normally think of PHP as executing instructions sequentially, but new technologies like Node.js are exciting because they break that paradigm.

These event-based techniques are arriving in PHP and deliver cool tricks:

- Run multiple blocks of code at once to speed up page loading
- Respond to events and inject information into running scripts
- Talk directly to the network or even become a socket service

Assuming no previous JavaScript/Node experience, we'll cover the basics as well as some real-life examples using libraries like ReactPHP, Kraken and Amp.