Re: Asynchronous PHP Execution

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Waynn Lue <waynnlue@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a system where a user clicks on a button which causes rows to > > be inserted in to the database. I'd also like to run some lengthier > > post-processing on those rows, but don't want to put it in the > > critical path of the rows being inserted and returning to the user. > > What's the best way to either batch up these other actions, or pass > > them to a thread or other asynchronous process to do the second part > > of the action? > > Can you just run this via a cron or Scheduled Task? Just have a > boolean column that distinguishes new rows as unprocessed, and flip > the flag when the cron script processes the row. > The problem with that is it requires another column to a table, which across all our databases will take a really long time. The other way is to create another table, which means we're inserting across multiple tables. Waynn