[Resolved] Wait $x seconds, or Wait until the "exec" command is finished?

[TrickyPhillips]

Hello,

I'm working on a script that will dump a MySQL database to a file with exec(mysqldump [args]), then will let the user download the database. The dump may take a few seconds, so I want to user to be forced to wait before downloading the file.

How can I tell my script to wait $x seconds before performing the next step in the script?

Even better, would be the ability to wait until the dump is done. Is this possible with PHP?

Thanks. 🙂

[drew010]

php is line oriented so it wont move on past the exec function until it gets its return code from the actual program. i guess this is exactly what you want.

[TrickyPhillips]

Thank you much, sir. :o

Resolved.