Question

I am writing a web-service. The PHP processor should handover the processing to an executable file located on the server.

On arrival of a request , the PHP should run the executable & take the output from the executable back & process it further in PHP , while the executable continues to run in the background. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

I made a webservice, which can run calculations in background and used files to communicate.

• Request from client
• create job file
• start background php cli which runs job file
• if the job process is done, it writes it’s result to a result file
• when the client requests the result from a job, the server process reads it from the result file