Hi, > Eric Liedtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [..] However, I am a little in the dark on what my options > are for spawning off a new process/thread that will continue working in > the background so the exported function can return in the script and go > on it's merry way. I'm hoping a more experienced crowd might have > some suggestions for an implementation of this type. Any pointers to > more info, modules that do something similiar or suggestions would be > very welcome. [..]
The most reasonable way of doing this is to write a *seperate* daemon which completes this task. Your PHP script would then connect to this daemon via an interface (sockets). There are "Process Control" Functions http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php which would allow you to fork a new process, but it is 1. experimental 2. only available for CGI/CLI and not mod_php .. and overall not a good idea. Your script would anyway have to wait for the PINGs to complete - whether it's in a seperate process or not. daniel -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
