I have a PHP script running on server 1. I want it to call another
script on server 2 to clean up some files. There may be tons of
files and I don't want to wait until the second script is finished.

Is there a way to asynchronously call the second PHP script?

Right now I'm using fopen() to call the script on the second server.
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James wrote:
> I have a PHP script running on server 1. I want it to call another
> script on server 2 to clean up some files. There may be tons of files
> and I don't want to wait until the second script is finished.
>
> Is there a way to asynchronously call the second PHP script?
>
> Right now I'm using fopen() to call the script on the second server.

Set ignore_user_abort in the second script and close the socket
immediately. Untested, but conceptually it should work.

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James schrieb:
> I have a PHP script running on server 1. I want it to call another
> script on server 2 to clean up some files. There may be tons of
> files and I don't want to wait until the second script is finished.
>
> Is there a way to asynchronously call the second PHP script?
>
> Right now I'm using fopen() to call the script on the second server.

Other option: Don't let the called script on server 2 do the work. Use
it to start another phpcli-script, then immediately send out the answer.
Something like

<?php
exec('/usr/bin/php cleanup.php &');
echo 'Cleanup started.';
?>

OLLi

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