Re: Running a server process

Tijnema wrote:

On 8/10/07, Richard Heyes <richardh@phpguru.org> wrote:

That is it works with just me using the site. I am wondering how this would effect performance if say 500 people were executing this php function around the same time and the processing overlapped. Is there anyway to make an executable run as a service, I am guessing at the terminology that I should use here, but I feel there would be a much more efficient way of performing this task.

Well, ideally you don't run an executable. But if you must, there's some Windows program that turns an executable into a service. But then there's the consideration of communicating with it, which you could do with sockets. Or you could use a file. -- Richard Heyes +44 (0)844 801 1072 http://www.websupportsolutions.co.uk

I don't know if there a program exists that can "convert" the program to a service, I think you need to compile it as a service from source code, but as I mentioned in my first post, and you mentioned here too, you also need to add support for a socket server in your program. Sockets in PHP are easy ;)

http://www.firedaemon.com/ But you're right, you'd need a way to communicate with the service. -Stut -- http://stut.net/