PHP Background Processes

[Thefox14]

Hey guys,

 

I'm trying to run a php process in the background so i dont have to let my users see the wait time, but its not working (I'm using XAMPP for my testserver if that helps at all).

 

Here's the code for the page executing the background process:

$path = realpath('./test.php');
exec ("c:/xampp/php/php {$path} > /dev/null &");

 

And this is the script im testing the background process with (It just creates a file so i can see if the script worked or not)

sleep(10);

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "Finished running";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

 

Any ideas why this isnt working?

 

Thanks for the help

 

btw when i execute the script like this:

exec ("c:/xampp/php/php {$path}");

It works fine

[ignace]

exec ("c:/xampp/php/php {$path} > /dev/null &");

 

LOL. Windows != Linux.

 

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