2009/2/8 A.J. Brown <fynw...@gmail.com>:
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> Just append "&" to the end of the command.
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> system('php -f /path/to/file.php var1 var2 &');
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> It may not work on a share host either, though :)
>The problem seems to be solved already, but to be complete I wanted to add that this won't work either. You are right, the process will be running in the background, but it'll also be cancelled when the script is finished. If you're running Linux at your PC you can try this out just open up a console, start a gui application with the & at the end of the line and close the console windows, the GUI application will close as well (this does not apply for every GUI application, since some detach from the console, but for the most I could reproduce this). This is because they are still "connected" to the shell that you opened. If you'd really want to detach a process you'd have to use something like screen. But as the problem is already solved this was just to give a hint to everybody that was finding this discussion by using google. -- Currently developing a browsergame... http://www.p-game.de Trade - Expand - Fight Follow me at twitter! http://twitter.com/moortier
