Posted by Rich on 02/13/06 20:20

In article <45bp05F5vmmjU1@individual.net>, J.O. Aho says...
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>MS wrote:
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>> Am I looking at the correct command? or is there a better one?
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>> and what would be the correct format for this function?
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>> exec(thumb.php);
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>exec('php /path/to/thumb.php');
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>This won't run the process in background, but php will wait for the result.
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>You could try with
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>shell_exec('php /path/to/thumb.php &');
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>but not sure it will detach the the process from the php thread.
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>> how do I force returned data to a file? as per note on php.net
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>I would suggest you let the thumb.php handle the output to the file itself,
>for files, take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php
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>
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> //Aho

When checking the php.net site there were a few examples of background processes
using exec() that may work out okay. I think some of these writing all output to
/dev/null and setting it as a background process with "&".

exec('php /path/to/thumb.php > /dev/null 2>&1 &');

Similar to your suggestion, but it looked like shell_exec may be expecting
results to store in a variable.

Rich
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