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

Here is a simple class I coded for my web application. It allows for forking PHP scripts and other scripts. Works on UNIX and Windows.

class BackgroundProcess {
    static function open($exec, $cwd = null) {
        if (!is_string($cwd)) {
            $cwd = @getcwd();
        }

        @chdir($cwd);

        if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) == 'WIN') {
            $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
            $WshShell->CurrentDirectory = str_replace('/', '\\', $cwd);
            $WshShell->Run($exec, 0, false);
        } else {
            exec($exec . " > /dev/null 2>&1 &");
        }
    }

    static function fork($phpScript, $phpExec = null) {
        $cwd = dirname($phpScript);

        @putenv("PHP_FORCECLI=true");

        if (!is_string($phpExec) || !file_exists($phpExec)) {
            if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) == 'WIN') {
                $phpExec = str_replace('/', '\\', dirname(ini_get('extension_dir'))) . '\php.exe';

                if (@file_exists($phpExec)) {
                    BackgroundProcess::open(escapeshellarg($phpExec) . " " . escapeshellarg($phpScript), $cwd);
                }
            } else {
                $phpExec = exec("which php-cli");

                if ($phpExec[0] != '/') {
                    $phpExec = exec("which php");
                }

                if ($phpExec[0] == '/') {
                    BackgroundProcess::open(escapeshellarg($phpExec) . " " . escapeshellarg($phpScript), $cwd);
                }
            }
        } else {
            if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) == 'WIN') {
                $phpExec = str_replace('/', '\\', $phpExec);
            }

            BackgroundProcess::open(escapeshellarg($phpExec) . " " . escapeshellarg($phpScript), $cwd);
        }
    }
}