Question

I have the following which call the exec to run the script test.php in the background.

exec("/home/gooffers/test.php?one=one &");

Script test.php contains the following

$test = $_GET['one'];
echo $test;

However this is creating an infinite loop (infinite number of processes) which is crashing the server. Why is this happening.

Answer 1

$_GET is not availible when you are running a script via commandline (php-cli).

See here on how to pass arguments to a command line script in php: How do I pass parameters into a PHP script through a webpage?

Basically, it’s

exec("/home/gooffers/test.php arg1 arg2");

and then fetching them via

$argument1 = $argv[1];
$argument2 = $argv[2];