[RESOLVED] triggering a php script

Hi All

I have a script that does a number of important things to do with importing data and takes a little while to process.

I have a second script that is less important but more likely to fall over or take longer depending on the amount of data it is working with.

I want to trigger script 2 from within script 1 but i dont want script 1 to be waiting for script 2 to complete before it continues processing.

I might want to send parameters in the url at some point.

I've tried fsocketopen and that doesn't trigger the script. File_get_contents does something similar...

Am I looking at some sort of http request?

Any help would be great
Thanks
Tim

Is this something you want to run periodically? You could use a cron job.

I think the other option is to use curl and set a low value for the data it takes back or something. I've seen it once but never actually tried it...

Hi there
Thanks for the help, its not something i wanted to run periodically, rather have something trigger it.

The curl seems to work fine, thanks for that. Also got it working using an Iframe too

Cheers!