Do not wait for response while making a http request?

[libbel]

Goodevening,

I've got a php script, his task is to make a requests to other scripts on other servers. The script that is executed on the other servers are also php scripts, these scripts executed a time extensive task. And when done they write the output to a log file.

My php script that makes request to the other scripts now automatically waits until the requested script finishes. This sometimes takes over 1 minute. Requesting 5 scripts on 5 servers then takes 5 minutes.

Is it possible not to wait until the requested script is finished but just to continue to the next script? Please note that the requested script must continue it's work until it is ready.

Thanks. 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

Create a separate PHP script that does nothing but call these other PHP scripts into action. Then, in your "requested" script, to start the other PHP scripts, you would do something like this:

exec('/path/to/php -f make_remote_requests.php &');

Basically, what you'd be doing is executing a system command to open PHP in a new thread and execute a PHP script that calls these remote scripts into actions. The '&' on the end of the command forks this new process into the background, so that the current script isn't waiting for the separate process to finish before it continues on.

[etully]

Niiiice!! I wish I'd known about that ampersand a long time ago. Thanks Brad.