How to fork in PHP

[Anon]

Hello fellow developers,

I'm busy trying to write a small php script wich will add a users email address to an database table, but also needs to check if that e-mail address excist in the domain.

Checking if an email address excists, takes some time (depending on the speed of the host where the email domain is hosted)

To be able to sent data back to the user imidiatly, I want to fork the initialized php script so, one would return information, and one process will check te email address in the background.

I use PHP4 as a module for Apache.

Can anybody please help me, figure this thing out.

regards,

Bas

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You can't fork PHP scripts in the apache module version. You need teh CGI version. Then just use exec() or system(). Check the manual.