Run php script as daemon process

Question

I need to run a php script as daemon process (wait for instructions and do stuff). cron job will not do it for me because actions need to be taken as soon as instruction arr

Answer 1

I wrote and deployed a simple php-daemon, code is online here

https://github.com/jmullee/PhpUnixDaemon

Features: privilege dropping, signal handling, logging

I used it in a queue-handler (use case: trigger a lengthy operation from a web page, without making the page-generating php wait, i.e. launch an asynchronous operation) https://github.com/jmullee/PhpIPCMessageQueue