RE: [PHP] Background Processing

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Maxim Maletsky (PHPBeginner.com) wrote: > You can use PHP-GTK in the background. Just call it with cron. > Alternatively, you can set PHP to keep executing on the user exit. What > was that function called? on_*_shutdown()? > > Could be dangerous though, what if it goes to lo

RE: [PHP] Background Processing

2002-04-24 Thread Maxim Maletsky \(PHPBeginner.com\)
You can use PHP-GTK in the background. Just call it with cron. Alternatively, you can set PHP to keep executing on the user exit. What was that function called? on_*_shutdown()? Could be dangerous though, what if it goes to loop-in your server? 30 mins is quite a few for a script to run. So, che

Re: [PHP] Background Processing

2002-04-24 Thread otto
- Original Message - From: "Richard Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:32 PM Subject: [PHP] Background Processing > Hi people!! > > I'm trying to find a way to handle this but I don't come up with anything. > > I need to execute a query

Re: [PHP] background processing / forking

2001-03-06 Thread Mukul Sabharwal
Disclaimer: The following post contains C code for *nix! Viewer discretion recommended! Hi, I'm back, I couldn't resist you mentioning C, so as you did, big fault, the code that follows is probably much better than exec, as an stderr terminal will still be attached, but anyway: exec("your

Re: [PHP] Background processing / forking

2001-03-06 Thread Anders Johannsen
> Now the problem is that the C program will be running > for longs periods like maybe half or even an hour. So > i would basically want to just execute the program and > return control to the script immediately so that the c > program continues it's work. > > it's easy with forking. but i dont se

Re: [PHP] Background processing / forking

2001-03-06 Thread Mukul Sabharwal
Hi Natasha, Well the probably easiest shitty way to do it is: exec("theprogram 1> /some/file 2>&1 &"); would exec()ute theprogram and will put it's output in /some/file and stderr's output also in the /some/file, and & at last signifies the backgroundness of the program. however as you mention