spatie/fork

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1046 stars · 114 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A lightweight PHP library for running code concurrently by forking the main PHP process into child tasks. It lets you pass multiple closures to a single run call and collect their return values, requiring PHP 8 with the pcntl extension in CLI contexts.

Use cases

• run multiple slow API calls in parallel from PHP
• execute closures concurrently in a PHP CLI script
• speed up batch processing by forking PHP processes
• parallelize independent tasks in PHP without async complexity
• fan out work to child processes and collect results

When to choose

• you need simple process-based concurrency in PHP CLI scripts
• you want a minimal API without learning async frameworks
• your tasks are independent and communicate only via return values

When to avoid

• you need concurrency in a web (non-CLI) request context, since pcntl is unavailable there
• you need shared memory or message passing between tasks
• you target Windows or environments without the pcntl extension

Facets

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concurrency developer-tools developer-tools performance cli php process-forking pcntl parallel-execution php linux macos

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