Async without ReactPHP?

[SerafimArts]

Hello! Thank you very much for the work done!

Can you please tell me if it is planned to add native PHP support? Would like to see something like:

// Client

public function receive(): Message
{
     do {
        \Fiber::getCurrent() && \Fiber::suspend();
        $message = $this->pollMessage(); // Message|null
     } while ($message !== null);

    return $message;
}

// Sync
$message = $channel->receive();

// Async
$first = new \Fiber($channel1->receive(...));
$second = new \Fiber($channel2->receive(...));

// ... process fibers (using "while(!$fiber->isTerminated())" + "$fiber->resume()")

$first->getReturn();
$second->getReturn();

[WyriHaximus]

Hey @SerafimArts, the current plan is combined both clients into one still with ReactPHP as backend and exposing a fiber based API that doesn't expose any promises.

[SerafimArts]

ReactPHP does not provide the ability to manually control the event loop.

Like:

while ($loop->isRunning()) {
    $loop->tick();

    // Do something else not related to the loop
}

In any case, thanks for the reply! I will think about how to solve the problem =(

P.S. Those. the problem is not that there are Promises, but that in the current version I cannot control the event loop by myself.

[WyriHaximus]

Well what is the problem that you are trying to solve by controlling the event loop?

[SerafimArts]

The absence of a global breakpoint (i.e. the physical absence of a while(true)).

Well, the physical absence of the event loop, too, because. in fact, it is simply not needed =)))

[WyriHaximus]

While we officially don't recommend it, you can do something like this to control the event loop:

while(true) {
    Loop::addTimer(0.01, static function (): void {Loop::stop()});
    Loop::run();
}

[SerafimArts]

It's too strong looks like a perversion)))

[WyriHaximus]

It is :joy: