Re: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-12 Thread Richard Lynch
Oh yeah, you can maintain progressive status on multiple tasks in all the cron jobs/dbs, and then make pretty graphs for the user to look at as they check back in to see how far along things are. I do that a lot -- A few minutes of coding for eye candy for the suits does wonders sometimes...

Re: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:26, Richard Lynch wrote: Oh yeah, you can maintain progressive status on multiple tasks in all the cron jobs/dbs, and then make pretty graphs for the user to look at as they check back in to see how far along things are. I do that a lot -- A few minutes of coding for

RE: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-11 Thread Daevid Vincent
On some machines, on some OSes, in some configurations, with some commands, tacking onto the end of what you exec, will sometimes work... Sadly, in even Linux, this will not work. PHP blocks on the call. I've even tried to call out to a shell script which in turn uses to call a command.

Re: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-11 Thread John Gunther
Great approach! Slicker'n snot. I added one enhancement: The shell script writss progress info to the database which the trigger page displays on entry. Richard Lynch wrote: I would recommend, however, that you re-structure things slightly so that the Architecture is more like this: User

Re: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-11 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish PHP would add threading. We write enterprise level products with PHP, and we end up using DBUS and letting Ruby do all the real work. submit patch Kevin -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have

Re: [PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, July 6, 2006 9:29 pm, John Gunther wrote: Which PHP method allows me to start a shell process from a web page script and let it proceed to its conclusion even though I end the page. Most of the various execute functions seem to wait for the process to finish before PHP continues. I

[PHP] Startinga shell process with a life of its own

2006-07-06 Thread John Gunther
Which PHP method allows me to start a shell process from a web page script and let it proceed to its conclusion even though I end the page. Most of the various execute functions seem to wait for the process to finish before PHP continues. I don't understand the ones with open/close functions.