On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:07 -0700, Surya Mishra wrote:
I have to start a task on the server side that is going to take pretty long
to process in the server side. So I would like to show a message to the user
and ask him/her to check again later. But starting a new task holds up the
thread and won't let me exit the php. The user's browser does keeps showing
busy.
I tried to create a new thread using pcntl_fork, but my php doesn't allow
that as it has not been compiled with pcntl support and its not possible to
change that.
I also tried to create a script that would do the task and called the script
using system command and passed an '' at the end to make it process in
background, but that also keeps the main thread busy.
Add it to a list (flat file, DB, whatever) of processes to be done and
run a cron script regularly (how regular would depend on the specific
app) to execute all the processes in the list.
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