php background tasks

[valter_ego_barb]

Hello,

I'm using some weather rss feeds in a web site. The feeds are updated once every hour and cached in a local file.

My problem is that every time the weather report is updating I get a long wait (not that long.. 2 or 3 secs) before the page is displayed.

This happens becauses the teplate engine that parses the page is waiting for the weather section to be parsed and cached.

Is there a ay I can start the weather parsing as a background thread and return immediatly to the template engine to continue to parse the page? And if so How?

[wilku]

I run the cache updater as a cron job (linux), every hour (separate script). The script that displays the page doesn't triger an update - it just reads from the cache. This way the page script doesn't wait for the update. If your server runs on Windows - there's a scheduler somewhere there, I'm sure.

[valter_ego_barb]

Ok. Thanks for the tip. I never thought about it before. I can do that.
Thanks again