Re: Execute a scipt in the background

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:59:45 +0530, narender <narendra@xicom.biz> wrote: > I want to start the execution of a script in the background at the time of user login. In the > script there is infinite loop which is checking something after every 10 seconds and if it get true > value the it open a popup window on the brower and if the user session expires then it terminate the > script. > how can I acheive this ? > > I have tried to do this by putting the script path in the img tag in th src parameter but its > not working. Is there any way of executing a file by means of writing a command in the php script. > You *may* be able to start a script in the background, but once the first request to the webserver finishes, you can't interact with the file again. I would say do the check on every page load and popup your popup then. You could also add some JS to make a call back to the webserver (via a hidden iframe) to check to see if it should popup. You could also run a PHP script from cron that writes a file (to /tmp, say) that lets a request know when to popup. On every request, you check for the file and popup if it's there. I definate;y do not suggest this one. -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--