Re: PHP-Apache-W98, executing external program. problem

Helgi: You can make a small program in Visual Basic (or any other language) that will accept a command line parameter and then Execute the program specified in the parameter. Why the middle man ? Well, when VB executes a program, it simply launches it and then continues doing whatever is next, like terminating and returning to PHP. After this, the PHP script will be able to terminate and the application launched by the VB program will be running normally. In your script you will execute the VB program and supply as a parameter the name of the other application. Saludos, Pablo Vera _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 12:25:03 PM, Helgi wrote: HJ> Hi there, I seem to be doing everything the hard way. HJ> I am running PHP with Apache on w98 platform. HJ> The problem at hand is that I need to execute external program from PHP HJ> without waiting for the external program to finish. All solutions, that I HJ> have seen are for Linux and Unix, which are farely simple. HJ> Normally you would want to wait for the external program to finish the work, HJ> but this one takes from minutes up to weeks to finish. Therefore I need to HJ> execute the external program and leave it running in the background. HJ> Please advice. HJ> Helgi Jónsson HJ> helgijon@hi.is