php exec command (or similar) to not wait for result

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I have a command I want to run, but I do not want PHP to sit and wait for the result.

<?php
echo "Starting Script";
exec('run_baby_run');
echo "Thanks, Script is running in background";
?>

Is it possible to have PHP not wait for the result.. i.e. just kick it off and move along to the next command.

I cant find anything, and not sure its even possible. The best I could find was someone making a CRON job to start in a minute.

exec php
7 Answers

I know this question has been answered but the answers i found here didn't work for my scenario ( or for Windows ).

I am using windows 10 laptop with PHP 7.2 in Xampp v3.2.4.

$command = 'php Cron.php send_email "'. $id .'"';
if ( substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows" )
{
    //windows
    pclose(popen("start /B " . $command . " 1> temp/update_log 2>&1 &", "r"));
}
else
{
    //linux
    shell_exec( $command . " > /dev/null 2>&1 &" );
}

This worked perfectly for me.

I hope it will help someone with windows. Cheers.

user_22040430

There are two possible ways to implement it. The easiest way is direct result to dev/null

exec("run_baby_run > /dev/null 2>&1 &");

But in case you have any other operations to be performed you may consider ignore_user_abort In this case the script will be running even after you close connection.

user_20476210

On Windows, you may use the COM object:

if(class_exists('COM')) {
    $shell = new COM('WScript.Shell');
    $shell->Run($cmd, 1, false);
}
else {
    exec('nohup ' . $cmd . ' 2>&1 &');
}
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