curl_multi_select
(PHP 5)
curl_multi_select — Wait for activity on any curl_multi connection
Description
int curl_multi_select
( resource
$mh
[, float $timeout = 1.0
] )Blocks until there is activity on any of the curl_multi connections.
Parameters
-
mh -
A cURL multi handle returned by curl_multi_init().
-
timeout -
Time, in seconds, to wait for a response.
Return Values
On success, returns the number of descriptors contained in the descriptor sets. On failure, this function will return -1 on a select failure or timeout (from the underlying select system call).
- PHP Руководство
- Функции по категориям
- Индекс функций
- Справочник функций
- Другие службы
- Клиентская библиотека работы с URL
- curl_close
- curl_copy_handle
- curl_errno
- curl_error
- curl_escape
- curl_exec
- curl_file_create
- curl_getinfo
- curl_init
- curl_multi_add_handle
- curl_multi_close
- curl_multi_exec
- curl_multi_getcontent
- curl_multi_info_read
- curl_multi_init
- curl_multi_remove_handle
- curl_multi_select
- curl_multi_setopt
- curl_multi_strerror
- curl_pause
- curl_reset
- curl_setopt_array
- curl_setopt
- curl_share_close
- curl_share_init
- curl_share_setopt
- curl_strerror
- curl_unescape
- curl_version
Коментарии
This function blocks the calling process until there is activity on any of the connections opened by the curl_multi interface, or until the timeout period has expired.
In other words, it waits for data to be received in the opened connections.
Internally it fetches socket pointers with "curl_multi_fdset()" and runs the "select()" C function.
It returns in 3 cases:
1. Activity is detected on any socket;
2. Timeout has ended (second parameter);
3. Process received any signal (#man kill).
The function returns an integer:
* In case of activity it returns a number, usually 1.
I suppose, it returns the number of connections with activity detected.
* If timeout expires it returns 0
* In case of error it returns -1
Thanks for attention, hope this helps.
curl_multi_select($mh, $timeout) simply blocks for $timeout seconds while curl_multi_exec() returns CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM. Otherwise, it works as intended, and blocks until at least one connection has completed or $timeout seconds, whatever happens first.
For that reason, curl_multi_exec() should always be wrapped:
<?php
function full_curl_multi_exec($mh, &$still_running) {
do {
$rv = curl_multi_exec($mh, $still_running);
} while ($rv == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
return $rv;
}
?>
With that, the core of "multi" processing becomes (ignoring error handling for brevity):
<?php
full_curl_multi_exec($mh, $still_running); // start requests
do { // "wait for completion"-loop
curl_multi_select($mh); // non-busy (!) wait for state change
full_curl_multi_exec($mh, $still_running); // get new state
while ($info = curl_multi_info_read($mh)) {
// process completed request (e.g. curl_multi_getcontent($info['handle']))
}
} while ($still_running);
?>
Note that after starting requests, retrieval is done in the background - one of the better shots at parallel processing in PHP.
On php 5.3.18+ be aware that curl_multi_select() may return -1 forever until you call curl_multi_exec().See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63411 for more information.
In 5.3.9+, curl_multi_select always returns -1. If this is your case, just wait a bit and then proceed like nothing ever happened:
<?php
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($multi, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
//check for results and execute until everything is done
if (curl_multi_select($multi) == -1) {
//if it returns -1, wait a bit, but go forward anyways!
usleep(100);
}
//do something with the return values
while(($info = curl_multi_info_read($multi)) !== false){
if ($info["result"] == CURLE_OK){
$content = curl_multi_getcontent($info["handle"]);
do_something($content);
}
}
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($multi, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
}
?>
According to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61141:
On Windows setups using libcurl version 7.24 or later (which seems to correspond to PHP 5.3.10 or later), you may find that this always returns -1. This is, apparently, not strictly a bug: according to the libcurl documentation, you should add your own sleep if curl_multi_select returns -1.
For example:
<?php
/* setup $mh */
$active = null;
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
if (curl_multi_select($mh) == -1) {
usleep(100);
}
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
}
/* close $mh */
?>
Even after so many distro releases, in PHP v5.5.9 and libcurl v7.35.0, curl_multi_select still returns -1. The only work around here is to wait and proceed like nothing ever happened. You have to determine the "wait" required here.
In my application a very small interval like usleep(1) worked. For example:
<?php
// While we're still active, execute curl
$active = null;
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($multi, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
// Wait for activity on any curl-connection
if (curl_multi_select($multi) == -1) {
usleep(1);
}
// Continue to exec until curl is ready to
// give us more data
do {
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($multi, $active);
} while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
}
?>
Internally php curl_multi_select uses libcurl curl_multi_fdset function and its libcurl documentation says :
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_fdset.html
"When libcurl returns -1 in max_fd, it is because libcurl currently does something that isn't possible for your application to monitor with a socket and unfortunately you can then not know exactly when the current action is completed using select(). When max_fd returns with -1, you need to wait a while and then proceed and call curl_multi_perform anyway. How long to wait? I would suggest 100 milliseconds at least, but you may want to test it out in your own particular conditions to find a suitable value.
When doing select(), you should use curl_multi_timeout to figure out how long to wait for action."
Untill PHP implements curl_multi_timeout() we have to play with our application and determine the "wait".
Before PHP 7.1.23 and 7.2.11, curl_multi_select() would return -1 if cURL had no open file descriptors. Since then, assuming libcurl 7.28 or higher, curl_multi_select() will return 0 if cURL has no open file descriptors and -1 on error.
See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76480
This is a BC break. See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77030
NOTE: current implementation of `curl_multi_select` doesn't block and doesn't respect timeout parameter (maybe will be fixed later, in this case just remove the usleep call)
here, i would like to post my working/tested example of proper usage of this function:
```
$running = 1;
while ($running)
{
# execute request
if ($a = curl_multi_exec($this->murl, $running)) {
throw BotError::text("curl_multi_exec[$a]: ".curl_multi_strerror($a));
}
# check finished
if (!$running) {
break;
}
# wait for activity
while (!$a)
{
if (($a = curl_multi_select($this->murl, $timeout)) < 0)
{
throw BotError::text(
($a = curl_multi_errno($this->murl))
? "curl_multi_select[$a]: ".curl_multi_strerror($a)
: 'system select failed'
);
}
usleep($timeout * 1000000);# should be <=1
}
}
```