Hi, thank you very much for help. I will try this solution. Do you believe there is still a way to use the exec() function of PHP ?
regards, markus weber "J Wynia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Mwct - Markus Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > may be someone can help me: > > > > I want to use the exec() function to run an executable as background > > process. This means my php script should not wait for the end of the > > background process. I tried a lot but without success. My script always wait > > for the end of the background process. > > > > My php script contains this line: > > > > exec(getenv("COMSPEC").' /c c:\mysql\bin\mysql.exe < > > E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/update/load_logs.sql > > > E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/update/load_logs.log'); > > > > Regarding to the online documentation on php.net all screen output is > > redirected to the file "load_logs.log". > > > > When I type in this string via command line the execution is successful. > > > > As I learned from the online documentation on php.net is that on LINUX > > systems something like "2>1&" or ">/dev/null" will help - but not on > > Windows. > > > > Any ideas ? > > If this script will only ever be run on Windows servers, you can use the > Windows-specific shell capabilities through the COM interface. > > $shell = new COM("WScript.Shell") or die("This thing requires Windows > Scripting Host"); > $shell -> Run($commandinquotes,$windowstate,$wait); > > Replace $commandinquotes with your commandline that you want to run. Put > it in single quotes. Replace $windowstate with 1, 2 or 3 for normal DOS > window, minimized or maximized and $wait with 0 in your case because you > don't want PHP to wait for the process to finish. > > You could abstract it further by turning the COM "Run" into your own > function. The below code hasn't been tested. > > function win_exec($command, $windowstate, $wait) { > $shell = new COM("WScript.Shell") or die("This thing requires Windows > Scripting Host"); > $shell -> Run($commandinquotes,$windowstate,$wait); > } > > $command = getenv("COMSPEC").' /c c:\mysql\bin\mysql.exe < > > E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/update/load_logs.sql > > > E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/update/load_logs.log'; > > win_exec($command, "2", "0"); > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
