Can't execute PHP script using PHP exec

Question

I am trying to invoke a script which takes several seconds (web services with 3rd party) using the PHP exec call. After much struggling, I reduced this to the classic hello

Answer 1

The problem is with PHP itself, it treats everything as $argv in the script. It doesn´t redirect the output to a file ou to /dev/null.

I faced the same problem some time ago. What I did is to create a runscript.php in /opt/php-bin and then inside this script run what It should be running. Something like this:

$script = $argv[1]
$params = implode(' ', array_slice($argv, 2));
$cmd    = "{$script} {$params} > /dev/null &";

$output = array();
$return = 0;
exec("php {$cmd}", $output, $return);

exit((int)$return);

And then you call it using:

exec('/opt/php-bin/runscript.php /path/to/your/script.php arg1 arg2')

It´s the only way I managed to get this working.