spacedevin / Timeout

A PHP implementation of Javascript's setTimeout

Timeout

Timeout is a PHP implimentation of Javascript's setTimeout for Asynchronous PHP. It runs an asynchronous process in the background while the rest of your code can continue to run. Like forking a process, or spawning a thread. Timeout is extremely useful for sending off mail, or 3rd party API callbacks like twilio or phaxio.

Timeout is as simple to run as setTimeout is in Javascript:

Timeout::run(function() {
    mail('[e-mail]','Timeout Test','It works!');
}, 1000);

Timeout uses SuperClosure (https://github.com/jeremeamia/super_closure) which allows us to wrap our closures with real objects like this:

require 'User.php';

$user = new User(array(
    'Name' => 'Devin',
    'Location' => 'LA',
    'Food' => array(
        'Sushi',
        'Beer'
    )
));

$o = Timeout::run(function() use($user) {
    file_put_contents('test.txt', print_r($user->data(), 1));
}, 1000, array(
    'require' => function() {
        // you will need to include class definitions first, so when decoding them they will be completed
        require 'User.php';
    }
));