Execute a PHP page

[Jezza]

Is there any possible, known, way to execute a PHP page like a process, so it doesn't display it but it runs it and does all the commands?

 

I'm making a register page and when the person registers it will send him an email and say "your email has been sent" but i don't want to wait for it to send the email so i was going to create another page which does that and execute that one, whilst displaying the "email sent" message.

[monkeytooth]

include() include_once() require() require_once()

 

embed the "Hidden" commands within the file thats your working with...

[mikesta707]

in addition to include() and its derivatives, you cold use get_file_contents() and use eval, but its basically the same thing

[Jezza]

But then it waits for output, I don't want it to wait for output, I want it to run as a process.

[trq]

But then it waits for output, I don't want it to wait for output, I want it to run as a process.

 

Waits? An email should take far less than a second to be sent. PHP has no forking capabilities, the best you could attempt would be to execute a command line script in the background using exec but Iv'e not seen to many people have success with this method.

[Jezza]

But then it waits for output, I don't want it to wait for output, I want it to run as a process.

 

Waits? An email should take far less than a second to be sent. PHP has no forking capabilities, the best you could attempt would be to execute a command line script in the background using exec but Iv'e not seen to many people have success with this method.

 

Well i really just want to know for future reference i know a list of call things i can do with it, such as make a program (non-PHP) that updates a website eveyr 24 hours using a php script etc. Your saying that i can exec something? What is it that i can try to execute? Thanks.

[trq]

I linked you to the exec group of function in my last reply. They allow you to execute external programs such as php's command line interface. eg;

 

exec('/usr/bin/php somescript.php &');

[Jezza]

Aaah perfect, it works great! That's what i was looking for, the program which executes php scripts in a process, thank you very much.

 

I used "C:\xampp\php\php C:\site\tutorials\mail.php"

 

and i recieved an email from myself so it worked very well hehe.

[trq]

Aaah perfect, it works great! That's what i was looking for, the program which executes php scripts in a process, thank you very much.

 

I used "C:\xampp\php\php C:\site\tutorials\mail.php"

 

and i recieved an email from myself so it worked very well hehe.

 

Still, exec has to wait for the execution to finish unless you put the script into the background. No idea how to do it on windows, but in bash you use & after the command in question. It may even be the same on windows.

[Jezza]

Still, exec has to wait for the execution to finish unless you put the script into the background. No idea how to do it on windows, but in bash you use & after the command in question. It may even be the same on windows.

I have this:

pclose(popen("start $command","r"));

hehe