enuro12

I've been googling for 5 hours. I saw all the resluts for exec in google so i joined and posted my question. I'm on a windows os. The linux command is exec("bla bla bla &") but that defiantly doesn't work for windows. I just got done trying system(php c:\script2.php) But that too waits on the process to complete.

As a note. I've tried the system() recommended on php.net/manual In my case webstart.cmd starts a second .bat file (which actually calls a 3rd) From WIDOWS to start multilpe php scripts from a parent script and do not wait for child scripts to finish, from the parent.php creat a X.bat file that contains all the commands to start child objects, something like: start /B C:/[path_to_php]/php -f C:/child1.php > C:/[path_to_log1].txt start /B C:/[path_to_php]/php -f C:/child2.php > C:/[path_to_log2].txt and then run the X.bat width <?php system("CMD /C X.bat"); ?>

I want to start my executable via exec. (or system or anything else really) But once the shell based server starts (which stays running) the php just stays going waiting on the process to complete. Can i start the app without having to wait on it to complete? <? shell_exec("c:\\server\\server\webstart.cmd"); ?>