How to check if a php script is still running

Question

I have a PHP script that listens on a queue. Theoretically, it\'s never supposed to die. Is there something to check if it\'s still running? Something like

Answer 1

In linux run ps as follows:

ps -C php -f

You could then do in a php script:

$output = shell_exec('ps -C php -f');
if (strpos($output, "php my_script.php")===false) { 
  shell_exec('php my_script.php  > /dev/null 2>&1 &');
}

The above code lists all php processes running in full, then checks to see if "my_script.php" is in the list of running processes, if not it runs the process and does not wait for the process to terminate to carry on doing what it was doing.