Call another PHP script and return control to user before the other script completes

Question

I\'m actually trying to apply this to a script that sends email. The sending email part takes a few seconds which is too long. What I want is for the first script to do its

Answer 1

Other solution :

• Your script put a token somewhere (DB/filesystem) when a mail needs to be sent (token may contain data for mail generation)
• A daemon (can be written in php) runs in the background looking for tokens and "eats" them to send mail

I use this kind of solution quite a lot ...