Running php script in the background

[harman]

Hi,
I have a script (doStuff.php), I want to run it directly on the server in the background and the output of that script is to be sent to a text file called output.txt. This is what i am doing but doesnt seem to be working.

set_time_limit(0);

$cmd = 'nohup /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/bancadmin/adminNew/doStuff.php >/home/bancadmin/adminNew/output.txt 2>&1 &';

exec($cmd);

header('Location: system_console.php');

Can someone suggest something.

[planetsim]

Have you taken a look into cron? If not there are plently of posts here about it

[harman]

This is not something i do periodically, its a one time thing...Cant i just do it like this?

[planetsim]

If its a one time thing then why are you doing it like that? just wondering

This can come down into server permissions and also how php is setup for it to work.

What does doStuff.php do, if its just returning data you can do that in the file and then output that into the text file instead of using another script to do it.

[harman]

Its a test for a bulk email engine that i am creating. I have about 10K emails. If i dont run it in the background itll take forever and slow my server down. doStuff Echos all the invalid email addresses as it goes in a loop.

[planetsim]

Well firstly PHP will have a timeout. So its not going to work to well. Thats why i suggest using it as a cron that way it is in the background, this current way isnt really. I suspect the reason its currently not working is because of a timeout?

[jannoy]

Planetism is right use Cron instead to work background. The cron wont affect your server and also you can set Cron time to run your application

[harman]

can you run a cron job from a web interface?