Using PHP to start a very long process

[tarsier]

Hello.

I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to start a 30-40 minute process from a web page using PHP. The process I want to start is actually a PHP program that starts from the command line and does a huge file-to-database transfer. I would love to have users be able to start this process from a web-page. I've looked at starting child processes but it looks like any child I make from the web-process is still bound by the maximum execution time for CGI scrips.

 

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

- Dave

[trq]

You need to use the & operator to background the process. eg;

 

<?php ecec('somelongprocess &'); ?>

[tarsier]

Thanks for the reply.

This is all running on a windows server. Will this still work?

 

-Dave