command line PHP from web PHP

DWhitehead

Is it possible to do this from a web script:

exec("php comandlinescript.php &");

If so, how? I want to process a request in the background.

LordShryku

Well, never occured to me to try, but I did this and it worked, so I'm going to say "Yes, can be done". Interesting question...

<?
if(exec("C:\php\php.exe C:\www\test1.php")) {
   echo "Executed";
}
else {
   echo "Can't Execute";
}
?>

DWhitehead

Thanks LordShryku. On Linux, I was able to do it this way:

if(exec("/usr/local/bin/php cmdlineprocess.php &")) {
   echo "Executed";
}
else {
   echo "Can't Execute";
}

However, I was hoping that by doing it this way php would execute the script as a separate process and free up the web script to continue. The cmdlineprocess.php script can take up to 5 minutes to run. Has anybody done this on Linux.

LordShryku

Usually, anything that's gonna take that long, I set up as a cron job....

DWhitehead

Cool. thanks.