Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/28/13 11:41

Sam wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The web site that I am building takes various pieces of information
> from the user via forms and generates a number of individual files
> which are then stored on my server for the user to collect.
>
> While this works on my test machines, it can sometimes take up to 15
> seconds for the PHP code to complete and generate the files. While this
> is happening, the browser appears hung.
>
> I'm concerned that when the system goes live, these pauses may increase
> and cause issues for my users.
>
> How can I take this processing offline - so the user can click on to
> other pages in the browser while the PHP code from the 'processing
> page' is executing in the background?

Set the file creation as a cron job, you only make the actual web page script
to store the information that the user wants and once a hour the cron job does
generate with help of the information the page and then mails the result to
the user.

IMHO the best option here.


//Aho

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