Re: Executing process in background

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:07 -0700, Surya Mishra wrote: > I have to start a task on the server side that is going to take pretty long > to process in the server side. So I would like to show a message to the user > and ask him/her to check again later. But starting a new task holds up the > thread and won't let me exit the php. The user's browser does keeps showing > busy. > I tried to create a new thread using pcntl_fork, but my php doesn't allow > that as it has not been compiled with pcntl support and its not possible to > change that. > I also tried to create a script that would do the task and called the script > using system command and passed an '&' at the end to make it process in > background, but that also keeps the main thread busy. Add it to a list (flat file, DB, whatever) of processes to be done and run a cron script regularly (how regular would depend on the specific app) to execute all the processes in the list. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: jasper@album.co.nz w: http://www.album.co.nz/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand