Getting started

Installation

composer require innmind/async

Setup

async.php

<?php
declare(strict_types = 1);

require 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

use Innmind\Async\{
    Scheduler,
    Scope\Continuation,
};
use Innmind\OperatingSystem\{
    Factory,
    OperatingSystem,
};

$os = Factory::build();
Scheduler::of($os)
    ->sink(null) #(1)
    ->with(function(
        $_, #(2)
        OperatingSystem $os,
        Continuation $continuation,
    ): Continuation {
        // this is the scope that will schedule tasks

        return $continuation;
    });

1. You'll learn in a later chapter what this value is. For now leave it like this.
2. You'll learn in a later chapter what this value is. For now leave it like this.

You can run this script via php async.php in your terminal. For now it executes an infinite loop that does nothing.

You'll see in the next chapter what you can inside the loop.