PHP on a windows machine; Start process in background

Question

I\'m looking for the best, or any way really to start a process from php in the background so I can kill it later in the script.

Right now, I\'m using: shell_exec($C

Answer 1

Tried to achieve the same on a Windows 2000 server with PHP 5.2.8.

None of the solutions worked for me. PHP kept waiting for the response.

Found the solution to be :

$cmd = "E:\PHP_folder_path\php.exe E:\some_folder_path\backgroundProcess.php";
pclose(popen("start /B ". $cmd, "a"));  // mode = "a" since I had some logs to edit