curl or include?

[AndreF]

I am coding a signup form:
when account is created then depending on admin setting, a SMF forum account also will be created for that user upon signup. To do so I thought of two ways:

1) create another file to insert a user row in forum db and include this script in signup code.
2) instead of including this file we can post the request to it via curl. In this way forum acc creation will be done in background so if any error occurs in forum acc creation, it won't stop signup processing. I think forum acc creation error should not affect on signup process.

So which way is better?
curl or include?

[NogDog]

There is no reason that an included file cannot be designed and implemented to not stop the signup process if the include fails. Conversely, a cURL process could be designed/implemented to interrupt the signup process if it fails, should that be desired. Since the include method would probably be more efficient plus simpler/faster to implement, I'm sure that's the method I would pursue.