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php in background exec() function

After a certain script runs on website I want to do a bit of processing in the background which could take a little long to run on the page request.
I heard you can do this by using the exec() method to run a PHP script.
If this is a good way to do it how do I pass a query string to PHP script with the exec() method?

EDIT:
It’s not a duplicate because the post you’re referring to doesn’t deal with my question about query string/argument passing.

Answer 1

If you want to run a PHP script in the background using PHP, then you can do the following:

$command = "php -d max_execution_time=50 -f myfile.php '".$param."' >/dev/null &";
exec($command);

$param is a variable you want to pass into the file.