Re: Asynchronous PHP Execution

Waynn Lue wrote:

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?

I think so.

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?

I believe it's the directory of the original script. So if you had: require_once('scripts/foo.php'); ...in orig.php, that would be correct. -- Richard Heyes Employ me: http://www.phpguru.org/cv