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When a user first logs into my app I need to import all of their store’s products from an API, this can be anywhere from 10 products to 11,000. So I’m thinking I need to to inform the user that we’ll import their products and email them when we’re finished.
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What would be the best way to go about importing this data without requiring the user to stay on the page?
Should I go down the pcntl_fork route?
Would system style background tasks be better?
I think the “standard” way to do this in PHP would be to run a cron every five minutes or so that checks a queue of pending imports.
So your user logs in, part of the log in process is to add them to your “pending_import” table (or however you choose to store the import queue). Then the next time the cron fires it will take care of the current contents of your queue.