Ensure code gets run after stop pressed?

[Anon]

I'm working on an e commerce site. At the end of checkout, when the user pushes 'finalize' the php script enters data into the database and sends and email, and does some other tasks. However, I want these to continue to run even if the user decides to push "stop" on the browser. There isn't some way to spawn a thread or something, is there?

[polson]

Example :

<?php

header("Location: foo.php");
processStuff();

?>

Even though the user is redirected above, processStuff() will still get executed. In otherwords don't worry about what the user does (client side), it (server side) should continue to execute regardless ... of course this assumes you aren't using break or die() beforehand.

[kparker]

See also:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php