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pistacchio
pistacchio

Reputation: 58863

PHP spawn process

How can I spawn a process in a PHP page in order to start a program that survives the execution time of the request?

In other words, I want the page to have a normal lifetime (few milliseconds) but launch a program that keeps running on the server. Thanks

Upvotes: 13

Views: 10101

Answers (2)

TimWolla
TimWolla

Reputation: 32701

Use this code:

<?php exec('nohup /usr/bin/my-command > /dev/null 2>&1 &'); ?>

This forks the sub-process into the background and writes all of the output into /dev/null. That way PHP continues executing the script as if there won't be any output it has to wait for.

Upvotes: 21

JanLikar
JanLikar

Reputation: 1306

I would suggest you to use CRON if you need to start a process on a time basis.

Upvotes: -1

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