Introduction
Why we are discussing this(multiple cURL requests/curl_multi_exec).
Let’s take an example where we need to fetch records from the server based on ids assuming that server will return data for single id in a single request.
Now, if we use cURL then we need to iterate loop for each id and request server therefore if there are 10 ids then on an average response time will be 10X of a single request.
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**$result=array(); foreach ($ids as $id) { // URL from which data will be fetched
$fetchURL = 'https://webkul.com&customerId='.$id;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fetchURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result[] = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}**
Solution
But if use multiple cURL requests then response time reduces significantly.
// array of curl handles
$multiCurl = array();
// data to be returned
$result = array();
// multi handle
$mh = curl_multi_init();
foreach ($ids as $i => $id) {
// URL from which data will be fetched
$fetchURL = 'https://webkul.com&customerId='.$id;
$multiCurl[$i] = curl_init();
curl_setopt($multiCurl[$i], CURLOPT_URL,$fetchURL);
curl_setopt($multiCurl[$i], CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($multiCurl[$i], CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $multiCurl[$i]);
}
$index=null;
do {
curl_multi_exec($mh,$index);
} while($index > 0);
// get content and remove handles
foreach($multiCurl as $k => $ch) {
$result[$k] = curl_multi_getcontent($ch);
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch);
}
// close
curl_multi_close($mh);
Result for each cURL request is in $result array some what like this:
**
$result[0] => {"id1":{"customerName":"John","customerAddress":...
$result[1] => {"id2":{"customerName":"JDoe","customerAddress":...
....
Reference by : Arjun sighn
Link : https://webkul.com/blog/simultaneous-curl-requests-in-php/
