Question

i am working on web Payroll project using symfony framework. we have 27000 employees to process every month. when we doing employee payroll process we can not depend on browser request as it is a long time taking process and server time out coming. as a work around we like to execute the php script from the background on linux server. then even browser closed the scripts can excute the background.

what is the best way to do this task please help

More info

we would like to give the pay roll process start button from the web interface when user click on the button pay roll process should start even browser close it should execute until done from the background.

regards

Answer 1

To run in the backgroud do the following steps:

1. Wrap your php command in a shell script:

**

#!/usr/bin/bash
# set up environment variables, PATH etc. here
php  /home/yourapp/yourscript.php

**

1. Code up a web page/php script to request the start.

2. In the script you need the line:

   system(‘/home/yourapp/yourscript.sh > scriptlog.txt &’

3. You probably need an extra link to browse the “scriptlog.txt” file from the web.