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curl_multi_exec

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

curl_multi_execRun the sub-connections of the current cURL handle

Description

int curl_multi_exec ( resource $mh , int &$still_running )

Processes each of the handles in the stack. This method can be called whether or not a handle needs to read or write data.

Parameters

mh

A cURL multi handle returned by curl_multi_init().

still_running

A reference to a flag to tell whether the operations are still running.

Return Values

A cURL code defined in the cURL Predefined Constants.

Note:

This only returns errors regarding the whole multi stack. There might still have occurred problems on individual transfers even when this function returns CURLM_OK.

Examples

Example #1 curl_multi_exec() example

This example will create two cURL handles, add them to a multi handle, and process them asynchronously.

<?php
// create both cURL resources
$ch1 curl_init();
$ch2 curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch1CURLOPT_URL"http://lxr.php.net/");
curl_setopt($ch1CURLOPT_HEADER0);
curl_setopt($ch2CURLOPT_URL"http://www.php.net/");
curl_setopt($ch2CURLOPT_HEADER0);

//create the multiple cURL handle
$mh curl_multi_init();

//add the two handles
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch2);

$active null;
//execute the handles
do {
    
$mrc curl_multi_exec($mh$active);
} while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

while (
$active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) {
    if (
curl_multi_select($mh) != -1) {
        do {
            
$mrc curl_multi_exec($mh$active);
        } while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
    }
}

//close the handles
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh$ch1);
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh$ch2);
curl_multi_close($mh);

?>

See Also

User Contributed Notes

Ren
2 years ago
Solve CPU 100% usage, a more simple and right way:

<?php

do {
   
curl_multi_exec($mh, $running);
   
curl_multi_select($mh);
} while (
$running > 0);

?>
Zappie
8 months ago
Probably you also want to be able to download the HTML content into buffers/variables, for parsing the HTML or for other processing in your program.

The example code on this page only outputs everything on the screen, without giving you the possibility to save the downloaded pages in string variables. Because downloading multiple pages is what I wanted to do (not a big surprise, huh? that's the reason for using multi-page parallel Curl) I was initially baffled, because this page doesn't give pointers to a guide how to do that.

Fortunately, there's a way to download content with parallel Curl requests (just like you would do for a single download with the regular curl_exec). You need to use: http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-multi-getcontent.php

The function curl_multi_getcontent should definitely be mentioned in the "See Also" section of curl_multi_exec. Probably most people who find their way to the docs page of curl_multi_exec, actually want to download the multiple HTML pages (or other content from the multiple parallel Curl connections) into buffers, one page per one buffer.
viczbk.ru
8 years ago
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html

"When you've added the handles you have for the moment (you can still add new ones at any time), you start the transfers by call curl_multi_perform(3).

curl_multi_perform(3) is asynchronous. It will only execute as little as possible and then return back control to your program. It is designed to never block. If it returns CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM you better call it again soon, as that is a signal that it still has local data to send or remote data to receive."

So it seems the loop in sample script should look this way:

<?php
$running
=null;
//execute the handles
do {
    while (
CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM === curl_multi_exec($mh, $running));
    if (!
$running) break;
    while ((
$res = curl_multi_select($mh)) === 0) {};
    if (
$res === false) {
        echo
"<h1>select error</h1>";
        break;
    }
} while (
true);
?>

This worked fine (PHP 5.2.5 @ FBSD 6.2) without running non-blocked loop and wasting CPU time.

However this seems to be the only use of curl_multi_select, coz there's no simple way to bind it with other PHP wrappers for select syscall.
jorov at mail dot bg
1 year ago
I tried Daniel G Zylberberg's function and
it was not working the way it was posted.
I made some changes to get it work and here is what I use:

function multiCurl($res, $options=""){

        if(count($res)<=0) return False;

        $handles = array();

        if(!$options) // add default options
            $options = array(
                CURLOPT_HEADER=>0,
                CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>1,
            );

        // add curl options to each handle
        foreach($res as $k=>$row){
            $ch{$k} = curl_init();
            $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $row['url'];
            $opt = curl_setopt_array($ch{$k}, $options);
            var_dump($opt);
            $handles[$k] = $ch{$k};
        }

        $mh = curl_multi_init();

        // add handles
        foreach($handles as $k => $handle){
            $err = curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $handle);           
        }

        $running_handles = null;

        do {
          curl_multi_exec($mh, $running_handles);
          curl_multi_select($mh);
        } while ($running_handles > 0);
      
        foreach($res as $k=>$row){
            $res[$k]['error'] = curl_error($handles[$k]);
            if(!empty($res[$k]['error']))
                $res[$k]['data']  = '';
            else
                $res[$k]['data']  = curl_multi_getcontent( $handles[$k] );  // get results

            // close current handler
            curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $handles[$k] );
        }
        curl_multi_close($mh);
        return $res; // return response
}
qdujunjie at 126 dot com
1 year ago
当在OS X mavericks中运行curl_multi_exec()时,
可能会得不到想要的结果,
因为脚本会一直执行但是却没有返回值,
这是因为在OS X中当php在5.3.8以上版本时,
在调用curl_multi_exec()方法之前curl_multi_select()会一直返回-1,
所以这里改写一下脚本,
可以在OS X中成功执行:

<?php

$ch1
= curl_init();
$ch2 = curl_init();

// 设置URL和相应的选项
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, "http://lxr.php.net");
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.php.net");
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// 创建批处理cURL句柄
$mh = curl_multi_init();

// 增加2个句柄
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch2);

$active = null;

do {
   
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

while (
$active && $mrc == CURLM_OK)
{  
  
// add this line
  
while (curl_multi_exec($mh, $active) === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

   if (
curl_multi_select($mh) != -1)
   {  
       do {
          
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
           if (
$mrc == CURLM_OK)
           {  
               while(
$info = curl_multi_info_read($mh))
               {  
                  
var_dump($info);
               }       
           }  
       } while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
   }  
}

//close the handles
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch1);
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch2);
curl_multi_close($mh);

?>
Jimmy Ruska
7 years ago
> replying to viczbk.ru

Just sharing my attempt at it.

> while (($res = curl_multi_select($mh)) === 0) {};
This worked on my windows computer (php 5.2.5) but when I ran the curl program in my new centOS server (php 5.1.6) the function never updates unless curl_multi_exec() is added to the loop, taking away the point of using it to save cycles. curl_multi_select() also allows you to set a timeout but it doesn't seem to help, then again, don't see why people wouldn't use it anyway.

Even when curl_multi_select($mh) does work there's no way to know which of the sockets updated in status or if they've received partial data, completely finished, or just timed out. It's not reliable if you want to remove / add data as soon as things finish. Try calling just example.com or some other website with very little data. curl_multi_select($mh) can send non 0 value a couple of thousand times before finishing. Lazily adding a usleep(25000) or some minimal amount can also help not waste cycles.
emmet at trovit dot com
3 years ago
Here's something that had me pulling my hair out for quite a while. I was trying to download multiple files and save each one in a file. If you want to read the file again in the same script that has downloaded the url, always make sure to close the original filehandle that you opened for the connection BEFORE trying to read from the file again, even if you open a new filehandle to do so. If you don't do this, a file_get_contents() or fread() will cut your file and only return a limited size of it, 40960 characters in my case, without any other explanation or error. The file will exist (and be complete) on your disk, PHP just wont show it.

I (perhaps mistakenly) thought this was a bug so I created a bug report, see it for examples of the code I used to recreate this misterious behavior:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62409
substr(&#34;iscampifriese&#34;,1,11) dot &#34; at beer dot com&#34;
8 years ago
If you are using mulit handles and you wish to re-execute any of them (if they timed out or something), then you need to remove the handles from the mulit-handle and then re-add them in order to get them to re-execute.  Otherwise cURL will just give you back the same results again without actually retrying.
pulksh at gmail dot com
2 years ago
This example not working on window 7 with php version 5.3.27.
Daniel G Zylberberg
3 years ago
This function wait for the last page, can get a configuration array with curl options to made a post, or pass timeouts, etc.
Retun the same array but add "error", and "data".Error is the string destription if something fail, data is the response.

<?php
// author: Daniel G Zylberberg
// date 11 jul 2012
// $res: array with structure 0=>array("url"=>"blah"),1=>array("url"=>"some url")
// $options (optional): array with curl options (timeout, postfields, etc)
// return the same array that gets, and add "data" to the current row(html content)
// and "error", with the string description in the case that something fail.

function multiCurl($res,$options=""){

        if(
count($res)<=0) return False;

       
$handles = array();

        if(!
$options) // add default options
           
$options = array(
               
CURLOPT_HEADER=>0,
               
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>1,
            );

       
// add curl options to each handle
       
foreach($res as $k=>$row){
           
$ch{$k} = curl_init();
           
$options[CURLOPT_URL] = $row['url'];
           
curl_setopt_array($ch{$k}, $options);
           
$handles[$k] = $ch{$k};
        }

       
$mh = curl_multi_init();

        foreach(
$handles as $k => $handle){
           
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$handle);
           
//echo "<br>adding handle {$k}";
       
}

       
$running_handles = null;
       
//execute the handles
       
do {
           
$status_cme = curl_multi_exec($mh, $running_handles);
        } while (
$cme == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

        while (
$running_handles && $status_cme == CURLM_OK) {
            if (
curl_multi_select($mh) != -1) {
                do {
                   
$status_cme = curl_multi_exec($mh, $running_handles);
                  
// echo "<br>''threads'' running = {$running_handles}";
               
} while ($status == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
            }
        }

        foreach(
$res as $k=>$row){
           
$res[$k]['error'] = curl_error($handles[$k]);
            if(!empty(
$res[$k]['error']))
               
$res[$k]['data']  = '';
            else
               
$res[$k]['data']  = curl_multi_getcontent( $handles[$k] );  // get results

            // close current handler
           
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $handles[$k] );
        }
       
curl_multi_close($mh);
        return
$res; // return response
}

$res = array(
       
"11"=>array("url"=>"http://localhost/public_html/test/sleep.php?t=1"),
       
"13"=>array("url"=>"http://localhost/public_html/test/sleep.php?t=3"),
       
"25"=>array("url"=>"this doesn't exist"),

);
print_r( multiCurl($res));
?>

---------- sleep.php -------------------------------------
<?php
sleep
($_GET['t']);
echo
"sleep for {$_GET['t']} seconds and show this.";
?>
qdujunjie at 126 dot com
1 year ago
when you run curl_multi_exec() on the OS X mavericks system you may not get the right return, the scripts may running and running but no return value.
That's because on the OSX system with the php version 5.3.8+, when you call the curl_multi_exec() method before calling the curl_multi_select(), may always return the -1.
So here change a little code to running  the curl_multi_exec() successful on OSX below.

<?php

$ch1
= curl_init();
$ch2 = curl_init();

// 设置URL和相应的选项
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, "http://lxr.php.net");
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.php.net");
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// 创建批处理cURL句柄
$mh = curl_multi_init();

// 增加2个句柄
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch1);
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch2);

$active = null;

do {
   
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
} while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

while (
$active && $mrc == CURLM_OK)
{  
  
// add this line
  
while (curl_multi_exec($mh, $active) === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);

   if (
curl_multi_select($mh) != -1)
   {  
       do {
          
$mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active);
           if (
$mrc == CURLM_OK)
           {  
               while(
$info = curl_multi_info_read($mh))
               {  
                  
var_dump($info);
               }       
           }  
       } while (
$mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM);
   }  
}

//close the handles
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch1);
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch2);
curl_multi_close($mh);

?>
robert dot reichel at boboton dot com
8 years ago
I was testing PHP code provided by dtorop933@gmail.com in curl_multi_exec section of PHP Manual.

The part of the code '$err = curl_error($conn[$i])' should return error message for each cURL session, but it does not.
The function curl_error() works well with the curl_exec(). Is there any other solution for getting session error message with curl_multi_exec() or there is a bug in cURL library.

The script was tested with Windows XP and PHP-5.2.4
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