Re: Suggestion on executing external programs from within php

Hi Stuart, I have finally had a chance to test your suggestion and I am still getting a browser timeout ? The 1st program runs to completion even though the broswer times out. So it doesn't execute the second program :-( I have also tried.... /usr/local/bin/process_file file1 & exec('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &') Any ideas?? John Stuart wrote:

John Clegg wrote:

I would like to be able to execute 2 system calls simultaneously. I am not interested in the output and I would like to do the equivalent of a fork as these programs take a long time. system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1'); system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2');

system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &'); system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2 &'); Should work in theory. Haven't test it though.