It is possible to create an "infinite" amount of semaphores when setting $key = 0.
Run sem_get multiple times
php > sem_get(0,0);
and check the output of
$ ipcs -s
------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key semid owner perms nsems
0x00000000 1277952 user 666 3
0x00000000 1310721 user 666 3
As you can see there were multiple semaphores set up with key 0.
For any other integer sem_get works as expected. It returns another resource id pointing to the semaphore previously created and does not create another semaphore.