When we think of PHP, we typically imagine synchronous, single-threaded code that handles one task at a time.
But PHP is more versatile than it's often credited for. Thanks to the process control (pcntl) support, PHP can manage parallelism through process forking, a concept native to Unix-like operating systems.
Since process control support is common on UNIX systems, it is also compatible with Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and macOS.
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