> I have some long running scripts which I need to launch from a web page and
> have them run in the background, but which should not cause the web page to
> wait until the script finishes. Reading the manual on the backtick and
> exec() operators seems to imply that the PHP function will be suspended
> until the script finishes, which is not what I want. Is this possible in
> PHP?
You need to redirect all output (I'm assuming you're on *nix), ie
STDEOUT and STDERR. For example:
$cmd = 'sleep 5';
exec("{$cmd} > /dev/null 2>&1");
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