split off a server request?

[dougthonus]

I am writing some software, and the php script that does all the database management for one section of it seems to take an absurdly long time (way longer than I think it should, but I'm not quite sure why right now, possibly a bad query somewhere that takes too long).

Anyway, I was curious, is there a way that I can can have php basically submit the long portion of this code to run in a background process instead of having the user have to wait for it to run?

Basically, I'm running something that does a post, so I want the server to act as if a user hit the url that was posted to while letting the user go do whatever.

My first thought (and what I may still try) is to do a fork, and exec lynx to go to the posted url, but I'm unsure how to include the posted data in lynx (though I could change it to a get in theory to solve the problem).

 

[sleipnir214]

Since you have mentioned fork and lynx, I will assume you are running PHP on a unix-like OS. One possibility is to have your user-contacted script add necessary data to a queue, and have a cron-run PHP script pull data from the queue and process it.

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