| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | YC Nyon <ycnyon(at)pd(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Spaawn another process |
| Date: | 2002-11-06 19:16:08 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211061215240.27461-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, YC Nyon wrote:
> In my PHP page, I need to run a external program to insert map data into
> Postgresql. However, the process is very slow (can be 10 mins). How do I
> return a webpage telling the user that the process is running and permits
> the user to browse the other parts of the web application.
>
> My idea is to run the "exec();" after the </html> tag. Would that be the
> way?
you should be able to do it like so:
exec('commandname args 2>1&');
You are running some flavor of unix, right?
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