Re: spawing new PHP process

Rasmus, Thanks for you reply. I agree that what you suggest is the correct solution for the mail delivery scenario I used as an example. My example was poor in that in limited the scope of what I was asking. I have other situations where I would like to somehow "spawn" a new php process so that the page loads quickly and my user doesn't get frustrated or confused. Another such situation would be when I do time consuming operations on a MySql table, such as building an index or loading data. These operations may take several minutes and I'd like to avoid having to make my user wait for the page to load. What is the correct solution for this problem? I'm a newcomer to PHP, am quite excited by it, and really appreciate your insight. Thanks, Bob >>> Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> 11/26/02 11:46AM >>> 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 > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php