Assuming you're working on UNIX--you need to use one of the execute
functions (search for exec in the manual). You can spawn a separate PHP
in the background in a number of way, for example, by using the screen
program.
If I remember correctly, you can't instantiate it directly and run it in
the background because PHP does not close stdout and stderr--but this
might have changed and/or I may be mistaken (nothing new there).
Marco
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I'm interested in spawing a new PHP process -- if that's the correct terminology.
The situation is that I've got a very slow loading page, where, for example, I'm using
PHP to send, say, 1000 emails. The user clicks submit, and, although PHP is firing
out the emails, it appears to the user that page is hanging. I'd like to somehow send
that process to the background and let the page load straight-away.
In another scripting language I've used, this function was called "spawn."
Do we have something like this in PHP (I know we do!! Just can't find it.) I've looked
through the docs but don't see what I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance.
-Bob
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