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Close the php socket

I have php script that when invoked by the user may take minutes to run, and upon completion will upload a file to a server. However, i would prefer to not lockup the users browser connection after they press submit.

So, is there anyway to close the socket between apache and and the remote user but keep my script executing?

Jon Hess

curri

You can use system/exec to execute another program (which may be another php script). You can make programs execute on the background, so with a little script magic you can make it work. Also, if you redirect the output to another file, exec would NOT wait for the program to finish before returning. So you can do something like this:

- Write the rest of the process (ending with the upload :) into another php script (you can pass it info with parameters or something)

and then use a line like this in your main script:
exec("php rest_of_task.php > deleteme.txt");

Of course the problem is then that you have no way of sending any output/error messages from this process to the web browser (but you can send e-mails or something)

Orlando

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us111

install php as cgi-bin, write your php script

exec("myscript.php&");
or exec ("myscript.php >/dev/null");
or if it doesn't work exec("myscript.php > /dev/null &");

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