How to execute long running tasks in PHP without cron
问题 Lets imagine my situation (it's fake, of course)... I have web-site that have 1000 active users. I need to do some stuff that will be slow (database clean-up, backups) etc.. For example, it may take 5 minutes. I want to accomplish that when user opens my web-site and some params are executed (for example, he is first visitor in one week)... user somehow sends signal to server - that slow process must be run now, but he doesn't wait for it's execution (those several minutes)... he just sees