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Asked: 2026-05-31T21:57:35+00:00

I’m discarding the old question for a better formulated question. I’m using the twitter

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I’m discarding the old question for a better formulated question.
I’m using the twitter stream api via php like the script below.
When I run it via the command line. The script keeps running and when I hit ctrl+c the script stops.
Thats great and all, but i’d like to run it in the background. When a user creates a new search, the script below gets activated and stays running till a signal is given to sop. Just like the cli version, but in the background.

How do I achieve this?

Ok, here’s a piece of code:

$opts = array(
    'http' => array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'content' => 'track=ipad'
    )
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$stream  = fopen('http://test@stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json','r', false, $context);

while (!feof($stream)) {
    if (!($line = stream_get_line($stream, 200000, "\n"))) {
        continue;
    }

    $tweet = json_decode($line);
    // mysql query
}

I’m running it

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  1. Editorial Team

    This should be solved by running the php script as a daemon from commandline, there are alot of things to conisder tho.

    • what when the system reboots?
    • what when an error occurs?
    • what about memory management?
    • what about monitoring?

    A good start is Jeroen Keppens’ presentation PHP in the dark he did on multiple php conference.

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