Question

I want to trigger a shell command in eider exec() or system() from PHP script but it is a task that take a while to complete, is there a way to trigger it and continue running the PHP page load without delay?

Edit: I am on CentOS 6, PHP 5.3

Answer 1

Depends on the OS you are using.

For linux:

pclose(popen("php somefile.php &","r"));

notice the amperstand at the end (very important).

For windows:

pclose(popen("start php.exe somefile.php","r"));

here the start keyword is important.

Hope this helps.