Re: Asynchronous PHP Execution

> > > and exec/shell (but that > >> doesn't seem to be asynchronous), but neither seems optimal. >> > > It can be if you redirect the output streams and put an ampersand after it: > > <?php > exec('sleep 5 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &'); > echo 'Script ended'; > ?> > > This tiny sample should end immediately, and the sleep command should run > on regardless. > > Thanks so much for the suggestion, that's what I ended up doing and it worked, after some fiddling. Just as a side note, does it execute from the current directory of the file? Previously, I tried calling exec('php scripts/foo.php'), but it seemed like there was some weird interaction between different required files. E.g., this was the layout: orig.php scripts/foo.php incl.php orig.php had the exec line, and foo.php had require_once(../incl.php). But it seemed like the exec call caused foo.php to execute from the scripts directory while the require_once caused incl.php to also execute from the scripts directory. How does php determine what the working directory is?