Method Modifiers
Method Modifiers
Warning
These semantics are only applicable to pthreads v2 - they have been removed in pthreads v3.
pthreads overrides the functionality of the protected and private method modifiers in order to provide functionality more suited to multi-threaded objects. pthreads applies this functionality to all Threaded objects from creation.
Example #1 protected method example: protected methods can only be executed by one Thread at a time.
<?php class ExampleThread extends Thread { public function run() { /* thread code */ if ($this->synchronized()) { } } protected function exclusive() { /* synchronized method */ } } $thread = new ExampleThread(); if ($thread->