Don't wait for the process to exit

Question

I have a PHP script that is called from a cron job every minute. This script takes some info from the database and then calls another PHP script using the System function (p

Answer 1

You could run them in the background:

system('php yourscript.php &');

You just have to make sure that you check on the total number of processes running. All in all, not a super elegant solution. Instead cron you could let one script run for forever, I am thinking something like this:

Careful though. PHP is not exactly known to be used as a daemon.