loop forever

[cyberrate]

Hello !

I have a PHP soket application (which runs on linux server) so i need it to work forever until i stop it, it uses

while(1){

and i launch it by accessing the page in browser.

How can i make it work even when i close the browser with this page?

[weekender]

firstly, infinite looping is really bad - if there is the slightest memory leak, you could bring down a web server fairly quickly, and so risk getting kicked off your hosting account. It's better to do a cron job to schedule a script to run instead.

If you still want to, have a look at [man]ignore_user_abort[/man]. Then you need to use [man]set_time_limit[/man] to set the time limit to 0 (no timeout).

adam