What are best practices for handling long-running PHP scripts and managing concurrent requests?

Long-running PHP scripts and managing concurrent requests can be handled by implementing asynchronous processing using tools like queues or background workers. This helps to offload time-consuming tasks from the main application thread, preventing it from being blocked and allowing it to handle multiple requests concurrently.

// Example code using Laravel Queue for asynchronous processing
use App\Jobs\ProcessTask;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue;

// Dispatch a job to the queue for processing
Queue::push(new ProcessTask($data));

// Example of a background worker class ProcessTask
class ProcessTask implements ShouldQueue
{
    public function handle()
    {
        // Perform time-consuming task here
    }
}