CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpprocesskill
user974634
user974634

Reputation: 57

Is there a way to kill a PHP program while it's working?

Is there a way to kill a PHP program while it's working? I know in Linux/Unix I can do

ps -u [username]

And it will tell me what processes are running. To stop a process I just enter

kill [process #]

With PHP is there any way to see what processes are currently running on the remote server and kill an individual program from completion? Ideally using exec()?

The reason that I ask is that I am on a shared hosting environment and I work on & test my programs directly on the server... Every now and then I'll do something silly like enter a ridiculous number of loops, accidentally, where it can take several minutes to an hour to actually complete.

Seeing that there is virtually no information on the subject, I thought it would be an interesting question to throw out there.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2031

Answers (3)

sanmai
sanmai

Reputation: 30881

Ask your hosting provider for SSH access and do that in Unix way. Still you can emulate shell access with a system function and friends:

exec("ps --no-header -eo pid,user,comm", $output);
foreach ($output as $line) {
    $line = preg_split('#\s+#', trim($line));
    echo "PID: $line[0] USER: $line[1] PRG: $line[2]\n";
}

Disclaimer: you probably won't be able to kill Apache processes even if you will have shell access.

Upvotes: 1

Pheonix
Pheonix

Reputation: 6052

if u have some infinite loop or something, put this

    while(1){

    if(!file_exists("continue.txt")){
    die("Stop");
    }

//Your Code here.

    }

so when u delete that file "continue.txt", your script dies.

Upvotes: 1

Robin Castlin
Robin Castlin

Reputation: 10996

You can change set_time_limt settings before the risk of a loop, making the script stop after 10 seconds if you wish.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

Upvotes: -1

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