note 51094 deleted from ref.exec by googleguy

Note Submitter: info at skyco dot de ---- I noticed that a couple of contributers planned on having threads running in background while operation continues. If you have a script that will function for itself there is an easy solution: call it through fsockopen (request to webserver) and do not wait for the answer. To make sure process is called correctly on all operating systems I had to add an fgets but break after first couple of bytes. example main script <?php echo "This is main thread, returning immediately"; $fp = fsockopen( <addyourcalltoscript> ); //fputs($fp, <yourvariablestosend>); while(!feof($fp)){ fgets($fp, 128); break; } fclose($fp); ?> example child script <?php // make sure script runs without stopping // set_time_limit(0); ignore_user_abort(true); // your code ?>