Calling Shell a shell script

[marius_13]

I have a test shell script that I need to call from a php page. I need to the php page to not wait for script completion. Here's what I have, but it's not working. The shell scritp run from the command line:

test.php
<?php
exec('/home/seai/admin/test.sh &');
echo "Wait for email";
?>

/home/seai/admin/test.sh

(permissioner rwx for user,group,world)

#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
echo "All images for $dest_dir have been processed" | mail -s "Image processing complete" [e-mail]

[matto]

hi, this works for me (under linux):

system("./export-questionnaire.php $id_questionnaire >>/dev/null &");

it redirects any output from that script to /dev/null.

but i I encountered trouble when a session was active. obviously, apache sometimes waits for script termination if the external script is started from within a session. in case you encounter this, too, you'll have to destroy the session before this command and restart it afterwards. you can re-register your session vars then.