Either exec(), system(), or one of the functions like them (check the manual)
doesn't wait for anything to return- it just begins executing a new process
and sends it on its way. Perhaps you could use this and just make whatever
you want to do a seperate file?
On Monday 22 July 2002 15:09 pm, David Buerer wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. But HOW do I do it?
>
> i.e. I'm sitting in my accept connectinos loop in the chat daemon
>
> While(true)
> {
> //waitforenwconnection
> $new_connection_id=socket_accept();
>
> //got a new connection, go process it
> go_do_this_in_a_new_thread($new_connection_id);
> }
>
> What do I put in place of go_do_this_in_a_new_thread()????
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Demitrious S. Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: 'David Buerer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes
>
>
> Yes. Write a daemon which listens on a socket and manages the
> communications it gets from the satellite scripts and works the database
> for them...
>
> The scripts send off data, and process replies. They don't do the heavy
> work...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Buerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes
>
> How to I inovoke a new Thread from the middle of a PHP script?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Maine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: David Buerer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes
>
>
> You can use threads with NT to accomplish what you are asking.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Buerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PHP] Windows NT Server, FORK, SOCKETS, and seperate processes
>
>
> I've got effectivly a glorified chat server which upon the arrival of a
> message thorugh a socket connection goes off and runs a bunch of database
> processed. My questions is this: How can I seperate the database
> processing into a seperate processor process? I really don't want the chat
> server to have to wait until after the database processing is done to go
> intercept and process another request--this just doesn't seem right. I
> want the chat server process to be able to deal with getting and receiving
> messages, and another process to deal with the database processing. That
> way if one of the processes get's slow, the other isn't affected. Something
> like the fork command would work really well, but fork doesn't exist in NT.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I'm running Windows NT4.0 sp6a
> Apache Server 1.3.xx
> MySQL
> and of course, PHP 4.2.1
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