Re: run a process in background on Windows

On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Christoph Becker wrote: > Jim Lucas wrote: > >> On 10/08/2014 05:54 AM, Jan Vávra wrote: > >>> I think It would be nice to have a function exec_in_background(.) that does it >>> directly in the php core. >> >> PCNTL [1] will allow you to fork a process. It isn't usually included in the >> standard build of PHP. >> >> 1) http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcntl.php > > However, PCNTL is not available on Windows at all. > If you can run that unix env on windows (used to remember the name but I havent run windows in years) you could use exec in php and invoke a fork using the "&" shell command so you would do a "& php phpapp.php" Tom