<?php
use parallel\Channel;

function sum(array $a, Channel $ch) {
    $sum=0;
    foreach ($a as $v) {
        $sum+=$v;
    }
    $ch->send($sum);
}

try {
    $a=[7, 2, 8, 1, 4, 0, 9, 10];
    $ch1=Channel::make('sum', 2);
    $ch2=new Channel;
    $num=count($a) / 2;
    sum(array_slice($a, 0, $num), $ch1);
    sum(array_slice($a, $num), $ch1);

    //receive from channel
    $x=$ch1->recv();
    $y=$ch1->recv();
    $ch1->close();
    echo "\nch1:", $x, "\t", $y, "\t", $x + $y, "\n";
} catch(Error $err) {
    echo "\nError:", $err->getMessage();
} catch(Exception $e) {
    echo "\nException:", $e->getMessage();
}