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Is it possible for CakePHP to execute a cakephp shell task on background for
i.e running long reports. I would also want to update the current
status back to the user via updating a table during the report
generation and querying using Ajax.
Yes, you can run shells in the background via normal system calls like
The tricky part is to start one asynchronously from PHP; the best option would be to put jobs in a queue and run the shell as a cron job every so often, which then processes the queue. You can then also update the status of the job in the queue and poll that information via AJAX.