You can use PHP-GTK in the background. Just call it with cron. Alternatively, you can set PHP to keep executing on the user exit. What was that function called? on_*_shutdown()?
Could be dangerous though, what if it goes to loop-in your server? 30 mins is quite a few for a script to run. So, check also max_execution_time directiv in your PHP.INI. Or, the best is - loop up a way to reduce (or split) the times. Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer www.PHPBeginner.com // where PHP Begins -----Original Message----- From: Richard Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Background Processing Hi people!! I'm trying to find a way to handle this but I don't come up with anything. I need to execute a query to a DB using PHP. The thing is that the query takes 0.5 hours to execute and I can't wait that time with the browser opened in that page. What I want to do is to execute a PHP code block in some sort of background way so I can execute the query and send the results via email. Any ideas to do this?? Thanks a lot. Richard. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
