On 19 October 2010 18:50, Ferdi <ferdinan...@printo.in> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have a php page that updates data from one database to another when it is
> run.
> My query is, how can I trigger the execution of this update page from
> another php / javascript without the calling page having to wait for the
> update page to finish?
> Basically, I think the update page needs to use:
> ignore_user_abort(1);
> set_time_limit(0); // I don't think the script will take more than 1 min.
>
> At the other end I found this:
> 1)
> http://www.mindraven.com/blog/php/run-a-php-script-in-the-background-using-ajax/
> 2) On that page a user suggested using *pclose(popen(‘/usr/bin/php
> /path/to/something.php > /dev/null &’, ‘r’)*
> * *However, I need this to be usable on windows servers also.
> 3) Finally, would pcntl_exec, pcntl_fork, exec or something be useful for
> me?
>
> Which of the above 3 options is the better one?
> Other suggestions are welcome :)
>
>
Hi List,
Sorry this took so long, but I wanted to close the loop (and maybe ease some
one else's trouble :-)).
I didn't think much about the die(header('Location:
run_this_even_if_user_aborts.php')) call I was actually using to get this
working.
When I carefully looked up php.net for header, I realised it was a browser
redirect! Now wonder the script would work some times but not always.
It's clear now that every time the script worked was because I waited long
enough for the browser to be redirected before killing the page.
I finally settled on using jquery's ajax calls.
Thanks once again to the repliers.
Ferdi
