Posted by MS on 02/15/06 21:17

> > I'd like a way of reconnecting to a background script via a browser
> > ... anyone?
>
> This is a complete guess, as ive done similar stuff, but not exactly as
> below.
> How about putting in something that checks for the presence of a
> certain file. maybe /dir/stop.txt or anything.
> And in the while loop, have this if() statement that checks for the
> existence, and when you create this file, the background script finds
> this file and then does a die() command, or even better, if you need to
> make the script do more stuff, put the new php commands in this
> stop.txt and use an inlude within the if() statement to carry them out.
>
> If you try this method, let me know if it works.
> I have not yet put php scripts into background proccesses, so if you
> know how to do this, let me know.
>
> Only done cron things upto now to run the script every so often, plus
> running php script from command line and interacting with on the spot
> user input, which is cool. Even got it interacting with mysql so i
> could get info like i was using a normal program.
>

On the same idea,... I suppose you could create a page in you admin/CMS that
allows you to update the database with a Stop_Background_scripts switch.

then your background script reads the database Stop_Background_scripts and
continues its process until the flag is set to false!!

Alex
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