CodeIgniter RESTful, async / background process

Question

I\'m using codeIgniter RESTful API (https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver) that return information (json format) to my android/iphone app.

There are

Answer 1

I found a solution that works perfect for me because i don't expect any result value. If notification can't be send...i log it in my database.

This is the function that i use to send "async" request (yes, This is not an asynchronous request, but it works how i'm looking for)

function curl_post_async($url, $params)
{
    $post_string = http_build_query($params);
    $parts=parse_url($url);

    $fp = fsockopen($parts['host'],
        isset($parts['port'])?$parts['port']:80,
        $errno, $errstr, 30);

    if(!$fp)
    {
        //Perform whatever logging you want to have happen b/c this call failed!    
    }
    $out = "POST ".$parts['path']." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
    $out.= "Host: ".$parts['host']."\r\n";
    $out.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
    $out.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($post_string)."\r\n";
    $out.= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
    if (isset($post_string)) $out.= $post_string;

    fwrite($fp, $out);
    fclose($fp);
}