Run PHP Task Asynchronously

Question

I work on a somewhat large web application, and the backend is mostly in PHP. There are several places in the code where I need to complete some task, but I don\'t want to m

Answer 1

When you just want to execute one or several HTTP requests without having to wait for the response, there is a simple PHP solution, as well.

In the calling script:

$socketcon = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
if($socketcon) {   
   $socketdata = "GET $remote_house/script.php?parameters=... HTTP 1.1\r\nHost: $host\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n";      
   fwrite($socketcon, $socketdata); 
   fclose($socketcon);
}
// repeat this with different parameters as often as you like

On the called script.php, you can invoke these PHP functions in the first lines:

ignore_user_abort(true);
set_time_limit(0);

This causes the script to continue running without time limit when the HTTP connection is closed.