http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
You can use the PHP shared memory message system. It is not the best in the world but it will do what you want. You can basically have a listener which runs to process the messages and your frontend web application will add messages to the queue. - Jon On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:43 PM, jukea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read very quickly, but did you look into php's set_time_limit ? > > On Sep 24, 3:48 pm, Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using symfony to develop a web interface which runs certain jobs > > (deploying sites to a shared host, updating deployed sites, etc.) > > > > The trouble is that these jobs can take up to 30 minutes to run, so I > > am naturally encountering timeout problems, not to mention what > > happens if the user quits the browser, or the HTTP connection closes. > > > > Currently I am using a simple symfony action which performs the job > > and sends output to the browser when done. I think what I need to do, > > is spawn a new process which outlives the web request. This will avoid > > timeouts because the web request will complete almost immediately, but > > the spawned process will continue to run the job up to 30 minutes. > > Ideally, the spawned process would also update a database with the > > status of the job as it runs. This would enable me to display progress > > to the user, perhaps using Ajax to periodically poll the database, > > even if the user quit the browser and then returned to my web > > application. The web application could use the database to inform the > > user how much of the job had been completed, and perhaps use the PID > > to check that it was still running. > > > > Does anyone have any input? Is this a viable solution? Are there any > > facilities for this in symfony? How do I spawn a process which > > outlives the web request, but is able to communicate with subsequent > > web requests using the database? > > > -- Jonathan H. Wage Open Source Software Developer & Evangelist http://www.jwage.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
