[PHP] Re: Drop connection, keep running?

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Lynch
I'm surprized I can't find a description of how to do what seems like an obvious thing to me: I want to have my script send output to the user, then drop the connection, and then continue doing stuff that the user shouldn't have to wait for. There's lots of documentation about what to do when

[PHP] [lee@piclab.com: Re: [PHP] Re: Drop connection, keep running?]

2002-07-01 Thread Lee Daniel Crocker
(Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED]): John Wulff wrote: I have never heard of someone wanting to do this, but you might want to look into methods of executing shell commands in the background, which seems like it should be possible. Basically, you're wanting to execute something that

Re: [PHP] Re: Drop connection, keep running?

2002-06-28 Thread Joshua Alexander
This sounds like the right track to me... the script has to finish for the page to stop loading, yes? So exec(your_other_script ); and be done with it, yes? I have never heard of someone wanting to do this, but you might want to look into methods of executing shell commands in the background,