invoking a script on another server and breaking off

[papayiya]

Hi,

I need to be able to invoke a script on an another server.

Now, I don't want my server to wait until the calling script has completed. I.e. if I was using file_get_contents to call this external script, I would have to wait till the script had completed what it was doing.

I basically want to invoke the script, and then break off from it. Almost as if I would run the script as a background process on their servers.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
papayiya

[Shrike]

You'd need to use a command line function, exec() for example. Although I'm not sure if that's possible on a different server. Maybe web services might come in handy.