Question

Let’s say that there are two PHP functions.

function first()
{

     $keyword = $this->input->post('keyword');

     //search for the result and show it to users.
     $this->search->search($keyword);

     //send the keyword to save it into the db.
     $this->second($keyword);
}


function second($keyword)
{
      //saving a search keyword in the db
}

I would like to send the result as soon as possible and save the search word into DB.

However, I want to run the second script later after specific time.

because I want to deliver the search result as soon as possible to my customer.

Is there a way to run second PHP script after a user run the first PHP script?

* I don't want to use Cron Job
* I wanna run those two script separatly. 
* don't want to use sleep because it will stop the first script for certain times.

Answer 1

You’ll need to route it back round to your server, but this asynchronous php approach works quite nicely (I’ve been using it for about a year to do almost exactly what you seem to be doing).

See: How to run the PHP code asynchronous