Quick PHP Question (dealing with time consuming server side operations)

[Retro2001]

Hi. Quick question: Is there away to execute a command on the server via PHP (ie. exec("format c:") or exec("dir")) then let the PHP script continue without waiting for the responce? Or as a better substitute, let a PHP script that calls a couple of time consuming server side commands be initated by a user without taking the user to the page generated by that script (ie. user clicks on link to "mover.php" which calls a bunch of file copy commands on the server but while mover.php is still waiting to finish up, is directed to "happy.php", another, separate page.) Any thoughts on this would be great.

Peace,
will

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You could just run something in the background with "&" or nohup, but if you're doing this on windows I don't know if there are equivelants of those.

 

[Retro2001]

It is Apache under windows....sadly those spiffy unix commands don't help me

Peace,
will

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Is php able to do threading? If so, look into that, it's the only other possibility I can think of.

 

[Retro2001]

The idea solution would seem to be to call an exec() command in PHP but do so without regard with the result.....any ideas?

 

[Retro2001]

The answer is "start" start is similar to nohup in unix....yee-haw!