Improving HTML scrapper efficiency with pcntl_fork()
- by Michael Pasqualone
With the help from two previous questions, I now have a working HTML scrapper that feeds product information into a database. What I am now trying to do is improve efficiently by wrapping my brain around with getting my scrapper working with pcntl_fork.
If I split my php5-cli script into 10 separate chunks, I improve total runtime by a large…