Re: Forking and BG processes in PHP
| From: | Tamas Arpad | Date: | Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:59:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Forking and BG processes in PHP | ||
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On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:15, Massimiliano Bariola wrote:
Hi,
Use register_shutdown_fucntion(). Connection is already closed when
the registered function is running, so the user can do what he/she
wants. I use this approach to generate pages that takes a lot time
into a cache, and use that cache on the next request, and works nice
for me.
Arpi
> Hi everybody,
>
> I wasn't able to find a good answer in the archives, so I
> thought I would ask here.
>
> This is the scenario: An user can request a time-expensive
> DB processing via a PHP page. I'd like to arrange for
> having a confirmation page telling the user that the
> request is being processed, and then redirecting him/doing
> whatever else/etc. Meanwhile, there should be a process
> actually doing the DB work. When it's finished, it should send a
> mail to the requester including an URL for the download of the
> results of the operation.