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forking a php process to background
The problem up front: I want to send quite a number of emails via php.
Sending all at mails at once is unfortunately a no-go because this
would saturate the bandwith of my host, which means i have to send
them in batches of 30 or so, and introduce waitstates in between.
Drawback here is that the script would exceed the maximum excecution
time as set in php.conf and would be terminated unfinished.
This means, I am looking for a way to fork a script to "background"
and disable any maximum execution time set. I do know that i could
write some code in another language (perl, c, etc), but if it is in any
way possible, I want to avoid that.
Sending all at mails at once is unfortunately a no-go because this
would saturate the bandwith of my host, which means i have to send
them in batches of 30 or so, and introduce waitstates in between.
Drawback here is that the script would exceed the maximum excecution
time as set in php.conf and would be terminated unfinished.
This means, I am looking for a way to fork a script to "background"
and disable any maximum execution time set. I do know that i could
write some code in another language (perl, c, etc), but if it is in any
way possible, I want to avoid that.
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It basically amounts to two things:
If you have PHP installed for CGI operation, you can use
exec('php -q mailscript.php &');
otherwise you need to fetch the script with something like curl or wget in an exec