I have finally had a chance to test your suggestion and I am still getting a browser timeout ?
The 1st program runs to completion even though the broswer times out. So it doesn't execute the second program :-(
I have also tried....
`/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &` exec('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 &')
Any ideas??
Yup. Having checked the system function in the manual (http://php.net/system), it says this...
"Note: If you start a program using this function and want to leave it running in the background, you have to make sure that the output of that program is redirected to a file or some other output stream or else PHP will hang until the execution of the program ends."
So try this...
system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file1 > /dev/null &');
system('/usr/local/bin/process_file file2 > /dev/null &');-- Stuart
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