Waynn Lue wrote:
and exec/shell (but that
doesn't seem to be asynchronous), but neither seems optimal.
It can be if you redirect the output streams and put an ampersand after it:
<?php
exec('sleep 5 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &');
echo 'Script ended';
?>
This tiny sample should end immediately, and the sleep command should run
on regardless.
Thanks so much for the suggestion, that's what I ended up doing and it
worked, after some fiddling. Just as a side note, does it execute from the
current directory of the file?
I think so.
Previously, I tried calling exec('php
scripts/foo.php'), but it seemed like there was some weird interaction
between different required files. E.g., this was the layout:
orig.php
scripts/foo.php
incl.php
orig.php had the exec line, and foo.php had require_once(../incl.php). But
it seemed like the exec call caused foo.php to execute from the scripts
directory while the require_once caused incl.php to also execute from the
scripts directory.
How does php determine what the working directory is?
I believe it's the directory of the original script. So if you had:
require_once('scripts/foo.php');
...in orig.php, that would be correct.
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