RE: [PHP] How to launch a background task from a web page

2008-10-30 Thread bruce
hey tony... in linux, using the "&" causes the process to run in the background. do a quick search/test from google, and test using php, from the cmdline. ie php the above isn't correct, but you should get the idea... once you've got the idea/process of running in the background down, you ca

Re: [PHP] How to launch a background task from a web page

2008-10-30 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tony Marston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some long running scripts which I need to launch from a web page and > have them run in the background, but which should not cause the web page to > wait until the script finishes. Reading the manual on the backtick

Re: [PHP] How to launch a background task from a web page

2008-10-30 Thread Richard Heyes
> I have some long running scripts which I need to launch from a web page and > have them run in the background, but which should not cause the web page to > wait until the script finishes. Reading the manual on the backtick and > exec() operators seems to imply that the PHP function will be suspen