How do I keep a PHP script running after I close the page?

[LeonKl2]

I'm trying to make a PHP script do something similar to a mailer program that I used.

It was written in PHP and I would tell it to email my list and then close the page. It would email the list and about 15 minutes or so later I would recieve an email that it was completed.

I'm trying to make the same thing.
Except in my program whenever I close the page, the PHP script stops.

How do I make it keep running even when I close the page?

Thanks,
Leon

 

[sleipnir214]

You can't. I imagine that the other application did something like write the message and recipient list to a file somewhere. The other application then scheduled another application to run, read the file, and send the emails.

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[LeonKl2]

I'm pretty sure its possible.
Because the way the autoresponder does it, is it starts sending the emails as I'm watching the page and displays the email addresses that it has sent to, but then after a little while the page freezes.

Is there any other way to do it in Perl possibly?

Or how do I schedule another application to do it like you said?

 

[sleipnir214]

If you have, as you described in your initial post, closed the page, what page are you watching?

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[hos2]

isn't it possible to start a cron job or something like that ??