problems, web get, forking children, ect

[Anon]

I have a few questions,

I need to fork a process, or have php NOT WAIT for the system() to return and say its done. THERE HAS TO BE AN EASY WAY

I need some examples, or info about "stealing" content from other websites, can a php script go to a web page and get data from it? The purpose is grab data from my log pages (hosted remotley) and graph the data.

While thinking now, maybe I could use:
$run=""; #security
$run="lynx www.url.com/file.log>temp.log";
system($run);
$run="cp temp.log /usr/local/apache/htdocs/";
system($run);

And go from there, but is there any web get functions built into php?

Well let me know,
Justin

[lawnmowerman]

You can load a URL into an array with file():

$urlarray = file( "http://www.url.com/file.log" );
$fout = fopen( '/usr/local/apache/htdocs/temp.log', 'w' );
fwrite( $fout, join( '', $urlarray ));
fclose( $fout );

See http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.file.php

-Rich

[Anon]

Dear sir,
I want some description about the following functions in UNIX. please help me out.
1. execlp()
2. execv()
3.fork()
4.execvp()
thank you,
venkat

[lawnmowerman]

The best place to find information regarding these functions is the man command.

Just use, for example:

man execvp

from the unix command line.

-Rich