Re: spawing new PHP process

The correct solution for this particular problem is to just queue the outbound mail and have your MTA deliver them out of band. "man sendmail" -Rasmus On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, ROBERT MCPEAK wrote: > I'm interested in spawing a new PHP process -- if that's the correct terminology. > > The situation is that I've got a very slow loading page, where, for example, I'm > using PHP to send, say, 1000 emails. The user clicks submit, and, although PHP is firing out the > emails, it appears to the user that page is hanging. I'd like to somehow send that process to > the background and let the page load straight-away. > > In another scripting language I've used, this function was called "spawn." > > Do we have something like this in PHP (I know we do!! Just can't find it.) I've > looked through the docs but don't see what I'm looking for. > > Thanks in advance. > > -Bob > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >