Hide the output?

[discofreakboot]

Hi. I'm trying to launch an AIM bot from my web page via the exec() command, which works, but the page just keeps loading and doesn't stop until I kill the bot. I think PHP is waiting for output and doesn't stop waiting until the script dies. Can I stop this from happening?

[bpat1434]

PHP is generally set up to stop executing after 30 seconds...
What does your code look like?

[discofreakboot]

Are you in any way familiar with BlueTOC?

It's an AIM connectivity class used generally for making bots. In a terminal window, you can start up a bot usually by executing 'php ./whatever.php' (whatever.php being the bot) and it connects to AIM and runs while including the BlueTOC class. From this point on the terminal window shows all output created by that bot until in some way I kill the bot.

The PHP script on my website, which is actually running on Windows (unfortunately), is using exec('C:\PHP\php.exe .\dabot.php'); but then the page just keeps loading. The script continues to execute well past 30 seconds. The browser never stops loading until I kill the bot.

Can I hide the output from that exec()?

[bpat1434]

You could write it into a var:
exec('C:\PHP\php.exe .\dabot.php', $output);

It's not guaranteed, but that's just what's in the manual.

I'm not familiar with BlueTOC, so I can't say for sure, but maybe using the [man]system/man command may help (it only gives the last line of output).