create multiple instances of a script

[PHPPadawan]

Hey guys,
I have 40 users that I’d like to run a script for – the script takes about 10 minutes to process each user so it takes over 6.5 hours to run.
I really wanted it to take an hour or less so I copied the script 7 times and divided the users across the 7 scripts – that worked but is there a way that I can have one script that creates a new instance for say every 6 users?

[chorn]

You can run every file over CLI via `php -f file.php`, or use thread with e.g. pthreads.

[PHPPadawan]

thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, pthreads looks too complex for me to use at the moment - it's something I'll definitely consider once I've got a better grasp of php.
I’ve created a script that’ll split the users into groups - is there any way I can create a new CLI instance and pass it a mysqli object containing that groups usernames and passwords

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<?php
 $connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "users_db");  
 $query ="SELECT * FROM users";
 $result = mysqli_query($connect, $query);

 
 $usercount = mysqli_num_rows($result);
 
 
 $totalInstances = $usercount / 5;
 for ($i = 0; $i <= $totalInstances; $i++) {
 $offset = $i * 5;
 $query = "SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY user_id LIMIT $offset,5";
 $result = mysqli_query($connect, $query);
  while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { 
  
		echo "User: ".$row['user_id']."<br />";
 } 
  
   echo "..................... ^ Create a new CLI instance to process this group of users <br />";
  
} 

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-- Host: 127.0.0.1
-- Generation Time: Jun 16, 2018 at 10:03 PM
-- Server version: 10.1.30-MariaDB
-- PHP Version: 7.2.1

SET SQL_MODE = "NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";
SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
START TRANSACTION;
SET time_zone = "+00:00";


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--
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-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `users`
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CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `user_id` int(3) NOT NULL,
  `user_password` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL,
  `user_name` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

--
-- Dumping data for table `users`
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INSERT INTO `users` (`user_id`, `user_password`, `user_name`) VALUES
(1, '9pqf6B4ge', 'Tamara'),
(2, '5eFN4B', 'Ariel'),
(3, '7DLSsLrdBY', 'Katha'),
(4, '72LhHJwA0U2', 'Ilyssa'),
(5, 'BSGKlaDkqmO', 'Moreen'),
(6, 'r0fsxx2ltzi8', 'Marchall'),
(7, '7A0hlt', 'Dianne'),
(8, 'M0SzOzhZLUvk', 'Corrie'),
(9, 'Q5MTvpk4V', 'Harvey'),
(10, 'VmMruG', 'Auria'),
(11, 'IboWcV0hqwFT', 'Marcelle'),
(12, 'mhDhIBC', 'Patrizia'),
(13, 'Pes17rv', 'Berthe'),
(14, 'dQM3Z2190o', 'Cam'),
(15, 'kGRGZV0tKL', 'Brooke'),
(16, 'rT8vvY', 'Marquita'),
(17, '7n6mReA', 'Tadeo'),
(18, 'MjNS06AAX', 'Zena'),
(19, '0zhb05GQ', 'Hashim'),
(20, 'S2eEMSfJsH', 'Fifine'),
(21, 'TDnGHIP', 'Gavin'),
(22, 'Y4ku0yK1iWl', 'Ilysa'),
(23, 'm8kNlOt8ZMw', 'Cassandry'),
(24, 'DhpNLsq9', 'Adela'),
(25, '22k9iNh', 'Analiese'),
(26, 'XyjoTSn2d5f', 'Maure'),
(27, 'KiepflrUV', 'Briant'),
(28, 'Pzff44upD0Sg', 'Benjie'),
(29, 'SyrVR1d2Eor0', 'Margeaux'),
(30, 'SR2ml3vT5uHT', 'Pepe'),
(31, 'SqaXVqzWrUxS', 'Nicol'),
(32, 'Lz0WWU1qHZ', 'Patrice'),
(33, 'LQXaW0gv', 'Gram'),
(34, '1qwNmNvwL5N', 'Erskine');

--
-- Indexes for dumped tables
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--
-- Indexes for table `users`
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ALTER TABLE `users`
  ADD PRIMARY KEY (`user_id`);
COMMIT;

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