This is highly experimental. Run this only in CLI mode! t Example

master.php <?php

$array = array( 0 => 'thread', 1 => 'hello', 2 => 'world');

thread_set('mySharedVar', $array);

thread_include('thread.php');

sleep(3);

echo 'Done';

?>

thread.php <?php

$array = thread_get('mySharedVar');

print_r($array);

sleep(5);

echo 'Done';

?>

Do not load the extension with dl(). The thread-functions are working like normal SAPI calls and creating a new context by calling php_startup_request(). Extensions loaded by dl() seems to be bound to the calling request.

The example-code is working on WinXP (PHP-5.2.6 and 5.3) and Linux (Ubuntu 7.10/ PHP-5.2.6 GCC 4.1). OS X 10 is getting evaluated currently but it seems to be unstable.