Category: PHP Non-Blocking
03/14/2017
How to use PHP as a web service to backup MySQL over HTTPS to a remote destination
Hello! Following with the theme of our last post, we thought it might be useful to demonstrate how to create a pure PHP based web service to backup your MySQL database to a remote destination (also with PHP) over a secure HTTPS connection. High level, all we will be doing is iterating over all the […]
03/03/2017
How to use PHP to recursively transfer files in parallel over HTTP
Hello! There may be some scenarios where you might want to clone your site or push files to a remote location completely and 100% using PHP as a web service, without touching the command line. There are many console or command line utilities to help complete this type of job such as rsync, scp, ncftp, […]
11/18/2016
How to create asynchronous non-blocking queued jobs in WordPress
Hello! One of the projects that we are currently working on is a WordPress plugin that integrates with the Toronto Real Estate Board to pull new listings from their systems and import them into WordPress as posts. The mechanics required to connect to TREB are very basic. One might call TREB’s systems out of date. […]