PHP multi threads - Setup PHP 7.2cli with Multiple Threads (pthreads) on Ubuntu

In this article I'm going to write steps required to setup PHP multi threads on your server.

Why PHP multi threads - CLI Version:

Running app on PHP 5.6 for web app but need PHP7.2 (pthreads) with multiple threads to run tasks at background so we can run multiple independent business logics without interfering with main web app.



Install required libraries

sudo apt-get install libc-client-dev libkrb5-dev libgmp-dev apache2-dev libzip-dev bison autoconf build-essential pkg-config git-core libltdl-dev libbz2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libssl-dev libicu-dev libpspell-dev libenchant-dev libmcrypt-dev libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libfreetype6-dev libmysqlclient-dev libreadline-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/gmp.h /usr/include/gmp.h



Download & Build PHP

wget https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/php-7.2.19.tar.gz tar --extract --gzip --file php-7.2.19.tar.gz cd php-src-php-7.2.19 ./buildconf --force



CONFIGURE_STRING="--prefix=/etc/php7 --with-bz2 --with-zlib --enable-zip --disable-cgi \
--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-gmp --with-imap \ 
--enable-soap --enable-intl --with-openssl --with-readline --with-curl --enable-ftp \
--enable-mysqlnd --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --enable-sockets \
--enable-pcntl --with-pspell --with-enchant --with-gettext --with-gd --enable-exif \
--with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-freetype-dir --with-xsl --enable-bcmath \
--enable-mbstring --enable-calendar --enable-simplexml --enable-json --enable-hash \
--enable-session --enable-xml --enable-wddx --enable-opcache --with-pcre-regex \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/php7/cli --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php7/etc \
--enable-cli --enable-debug --enable-fpm --with-fpm-user=www-data --with-fpm-group=www-data \
--with-mcrypt --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-shmop \
--enable-pthreads --with-tsrm-pthreads --enable-maintainer-zts"



./configure $CONFIGURE_STRING

make && sudo make install



Check it's installed (this should print 1)

/etc/php7/bin/php -r "echo PHP_ZTS;"

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