RE: [PHP] Start php-script with exec()?

[snip] > As usual for *nix type 'which php' which will return the path to the > PHP executable. For portability you could then do something to the > effect of (not tested) which() doesn't resolve the path, but I found out it was /usr/local/php/bin/php. But how do I make the call exec("/usr/local/php/bin/php process1.php"); so that the page from which the call is made doesnt wait for the result but instead just continues? [/snip] use & (not tested, but runs other processes as background processes) exec("/usr/local/php/bin/php process1.php &"); From http://www.php.net/exec : If you start a program using this function and want to leave it running in the background, you have to make sure that the output of that program is redirected to a file or some other output stream or else PHP will hang until the execution of the program ends.