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[sniperscope]

Hi gurus. I want to ask you that if start a job with php and (assume that i have 50000 records and delete or move or doing some jobs with that records) and seems it going to take long time. So is php still keep working in background after i click the submit button and then close the browser or navigate other page ???

 

Hopefully i could explain.

 

Regards

[trq]

If php isn't attempting to send data back to the client, it would quit, otherwise however it may continue untill the server times out. There really isn't any hard guarantee though. To many variables can come into play.

 

You might take a look at ignore_user_abort but you might also ask yourself is php really what I'm looking for?

 

What exactly are you attempting to do?

[ToonMariner]

yep. fork your script.

 

this will be of use: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

[sniperscope]

i am very glad to rapid response.

Her is my problem ; i have mailing list which contains over than 400 records. So i send mail magazine through SMTP server and takes long time to finish because i have to keep 3 seconds between each loop (sleep(3)) because of my server thinks that i am spamming.

Anyway, after i click to send button my browser wait until php finishes it jobs(which means reach to end of records) so what if i close browser or click another link. Is php stop the working ?

My compose page is Compose.php and after composing mail Send.php is getting whole records put them into a loop send mail every records.

 

Did i make you confuse ?

[JonnoTheDev]

Execute a background process as ToonMariner has stated. You would never wait for that to complete in a web browser!

[ToonMariner]

there used to be a tutorial on phpfreaks on exactly this problem - appears to have disappeared since the refresh...

[JonnoTheDev]

example:

// start script as background process
exec("php /path/to/file.php > /dev/null &");

[sniperscope]

example:

// start script as background process
exec("php /path/to/file.php > /dev/null &");

Ok...

What if i use

ignore_user_abort(1);

set_time_limit(0);

I think this way will keep working even if i close browser or navigate another page. So is set time to 0 php will never timeout until my loop finish.

Isn't this much easier way ? 

[JonnoTheDev]

no!

[sniperscope]

no!

Then means should i follow reply #6 or reply #2 ?

[trq]

no!

Then means should i follow reply #6 or reply #2 ?

 

i think you should read reply #2 again. Its full of if's and maybe's which was my intention.

[sniperscope]

Ok.. i read ToonMariner 's link and seems it is far from solution of my problem. Because they are discussing running command on IIS or running windows commands.

[ToonMariner]

don't worry about running on OS...

 

this submission was based on linux servers http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php#88704

 

the principle is exactly the same - all you need do now is formulate the command you need to run your email and pass the relevant arguments.

 

Go step by step and make sure you can run exec on your box as a test then start investigating the path to the script you need to execute - use a test script that just sends you an email that way you won't annoy anyone if you break it.