[PHP] Running php in background?

I wrote a php program that has to do a lot of processing on a couple large mySQL tables that can take hours, so often the page will time out or kick back a cannot find server errir. But it seems by checking the DB that records are still being updated. IS it possible the job runs in background

Re: [PHP] Running php in background?

Hi James, Ideally, I would like to run the job in the background anyway. Can that be done? read this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php and search for 'background' keyword. -- Jimmy Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will