Re: Exec Script in the background, don't wait till it finishes

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:56, Kai Renz <writemecas@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Now here is the problem: > it all works fine, but the client can't send a quit message to socket1 > because socket1.php waits until socket2.php is finished. socket2.php > is working properly, and if i connect to the new socket and quit the > connection, socket1 is working again. All i need socket1 to do is to > continue working independant of socket2. > > I tried everything, from shell_exec to pcntl_exec, nothing seems to work. Have you looked into pcntl_fork() or running it in the background via something as simple as backticks? The latter of which, exemplified: <?php /bin/env php /path/to/socket2.php --port 1234 >> /path/to/log.txt 2>&1 &; ?> Expanding on that, you could do something like this: <?php exec('/bin/env php /path/to/socket2.php --port 1234 >> /path/to/log.txt 2>&1 &',$ret,$err); if ($err === 0) { exec('echo $$',$ret); $pid = $response[0]; echo $pid.PHP_EOL; } else { echo 'There was an error while forking the process. Please view the log.'.PHP_EOL; } ?> -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/