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

On my Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 machines, the only solution that worked reliably within pclose/popen was to invoke powershell's Start-Process command, as in:

pclose(popen('powershell.exe "Start-Process foo.bat -WindowStyle Hidden"','r'));

Or more verbosely if you want to supply arguments and redirect outputs:

pclose(popen('powershell.exe "Start-Process foo.bat 
             -ArgumentList \'bar\',\'bat\' 
             -WindowStyle Hidden
             -RedirectStandardOutput \'.\\console.out\' 
             -RedirectStandardError \'.\\console.err\'"','r'));