On Sat, October 29, 2005 3:57 pm, Martin Zvarík wrote: > I have a file, which I run using command line. The file I am running, > runs several files using passthru(). > What I realise is, that it runs each file in sequence and waits for > its > result. > I need to run all files at once and they don't have to return the > result > to the main file. How do I do this? Couple Options: Change your script to accept a single filename from the command line ($argv) and then run several of that script from command line in the background: php -q singlefileprocess.php datafile1.txt & php -q singlefileprocess.php datafile2.txt & php -q singlefileprocess.php datafile3.txt & http://php.net/pcntl This basically would be the same (sort of) as just running multiple copies of your PHP script, one for each file, but keeps your script able to process multiple files... Not sure it's worth the effort, but there it is. You could also use http://php.net/exec to have PHP fire up more PHP scripts in the background: <?php //loop through $filename exec("/full/path/to/php -q processonefile.php $filename &", $output, $error); if ($error) echo "OS Error: $error\n"; echo implode("", $output); if ($error) exit; ?> Note that in all cases, not only with the results most likely not return to the main file, they'll be reading the files in parallel and doing whatever to them... Be sure that this won't affect other parts of the application. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
