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

It's a great idea to use cURL as suggested by rojoca.

Here is an example. You can monitor text.txt while the script is running in background:

\n";
    $url = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $url = preg_replace('/\?.*/', '', $url);
    $url .= '?begin='.$begin;
    echo 'URL: '.$url.'
';
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    echo 'Result: '.$result.'
';
    curl_close($ch);
}


if (empty($_GET['begin'])) {
    doCurl(1);
}
else {
    while (ob_get_level())
        ob_end_clean();
    header('Connection: close');
    ignore_user_abort();
    ob_start();
    echo 'Connection Closed';
    $size = ob_get_length();
    header("Content-Length: $size");
    ob_end_flush();
    flush();

    $begin = $_GET['begin'];
    $fp = fopen("text.txt", "w");
    fprintf($fp, "begin: %d\n", $begin);
    for ($i = 0; $i < 15; $i++) {
        sleep(1);
        fprintf($fp, "i: %d\n", $i);
    }
    fclose($fp);
    if ($begin < 10)
        doCurl($begin + 1);
}

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