Run two different PHP programs at the same time

Question

Good afternoon!

I'm currently working on a small project. I try to make a simple REST api in PHP to control music. The idea is that a call to the api executes a server command with the exec function of PHP. This is already working :)

What I like to do know is to play multiple files after each other, like a playlist. My idea is two different programs. One program that manage a queue with files that must be played and a program that plays the first item in the queue, than the second, etc. While the song is playing the queue should be modified.

So may question is: is this even possible? I there a way to run these programs at the same time? Or is my way of thinking way to complex and is there a much better and simpler solution?

Thanks for thinking along with me :)
Niels

Answer 1

You could :

1. Make 2 different API calls from your client, 1 for your queue and 1 for your player
2. Create a bash script that launches both processes as daemon using the & char, and make your API call this script
3. Trying some async threads in PHP (I did not test yet), doc here and here