PHP :: Background Redirection

In Background
Here's my situation. I'm creating a website (basically a store) and in the admin section users will want to download zip files of images or products added in the last 7 days, last 2 weeks and the last month.

I have scripted a cron to run every 24 hours to zip all the images and this process takes over 1 minute (there's over 6,000 images!!) and the size of this is 250MB. This has now taken me to my quota on my webspace of 500MB (including all the individual images)

I have decided the only way to do this is dynamically create the zip when the user requests it. As PHP times out after 30 seconds it needs to do it's stuff in the background and display a message saying something like' We'll email you with the zip file in 5 minutes or so'.

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Run In The Background?
I have a script on my website that takes a long time to run, and it's slowing down my pages. Theres nothing I can do about the wait time on the file.

Is there a way to use include or fopen or anything along those lines, to have it execute my file in the background; without having the file that's executing it waiting for it to finish its thing? Or to have the expected output redirected to another file (as mentioned in http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php)?

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Running Background Job...
Is it possible to get a php3 script to check what day it is, and then do some stuff, If it’s let’s say Monday?
This without you doing anything. Like a background - or cronjob…
I guess you would use perl or something to do this, but that is not an option I have.

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Background Processing
What is the technique you use for background processing? Like when user submit a task, the user could then wait for the result by email or through a result page.

I'm wondering how would they do that?

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Background Color
I am totally baffled by what is happening in my code. I have a section
of code (shown below with two comment lines inserted). They are
essentially identical text boxes (names and variables different). Yet,
the first comes up with a white background and the second comes up with
a yellow/gold background....

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Run Process In Background
I want to run process from my php script in background.
I try different functions from functions list but all of them whaiting for
process ending. How can I run `wget -b ...` and finish my script, but wget must still working? I use PHP5, Linux, Apache2.

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Background Processes
I'd like to know how to send an external process to the background, so that I can run multiple instances of the same process at one time. Any tips, links.. etc?

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Php Running In The Background?
In order to run a php script - do I need to access it via a browser? Is there a way to write a php script and let it run from the shell in the background?

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Running Php In The Background
I am trying to run a php executable (GTK) from a browser... now exec() does the job, but the browser hangs waiting for the .exe I have just called to finish, I assume so it can 'report back' to exec(),

any ideas how I can get around this ? - I have tried backticks,passthru,system,exec - all with the same results, i.e. they all expect a returned value and sit around waiting for it. This is a windows app so /dev/null wont help & it is not a CGI with output I can dump anyway.

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Run A Php In The Background Using Http
i have a script (script1) which needs to call another script (script2).
It should not wait for the answer, so script2 should run in the background.

I really need to call the php script using:
http://urlof myscript/script2.php

I don't want to use it as a cgi and use CLI.

I did a test with fsockopen and curl and a timeout of 10 seconds and call
http://urlof myscript/script1.php from my browser:
Script1 stops after 10 seconds => OK
Script2 has been called by script1 and continue to run in the background
=>OK
After 60 seconds Script2 is killed by php!! => KO :(

The script is working fine if i call http://urlof myscript/script2.php from
my browser. It needs around 120 seconds to finish.

Why is it stopping after 60 seconds when I use fsockopen and call it from
script1?

Here is the script in SCRIPT1:
$fp = fsockopen("$host", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
stream_set_timeout($fp,10);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno) 
";
} else {
$out = "GET $path HTTP/1.1
";
$out .= "Host: $host
";
$out .= "Connection: Close

";

fwrite($fp, $out);
$status = socket_get_status($fp);

while (!feof($fp) && !$status['timed_out']) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
$status = socket_get_status($fp);
}
fclose($fp);
}

I have added this in SCRIPT2:
ignore_user_abort(FALSE); // becareful, FALSE really means it should ignore
user abort !!!
set_time_limit (120);
ini_set("max_input_time",120);
ini_set("max_execution_time",120);

Do you have any idea?

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Background Refresh
I am using php_move_file to upload some files to the server. I want to
be able to support large files. But the Apache settings is that after
90 sec. the connections resets. This becomes a problem with large
files (slow links). Is there anyway to write a script that would
refresh in the background....

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A Way To Get Current Background?
I have several websites running on a global script. Some pages, the backgrounds black, other, white. Sometimes people have the taste of posting black font on a black background, or white font on a white background.

What I wanted is to know if theres a way to 'check' the current background color? Because I can then add in the script to 'change' any incorrect colors before posting. I'm not sure if theres a way for PHP to tap into CSS and check, but it would be alot easier to change the global script since its *Checking* for the background color rather then me do it per site and change it manually.

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Using SWF Files As Background
Im not sure if it posilbe, but im trying to get a SWF file as the background of my page, but the swf file is dynamically named. Its like a gallery and when a user clicks on the lick to that file, it displays the image /swf. but i want the file to appear as the background. code:

echo "<body background = '".$POST['file_name']."'>";

ii have 3 files so far. file1, 2, 3 .swf. and i can easily view each one as a seperate file, and they work once i embed them as images. is this my php code, or do i have to look at my browser to display the swf as BG..?

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Background Running
I have a php script. It basically fetches data from MySql DB, processes it, and updates the results back in the Database. There are some 18k rows in the DB. The processing involves querying some remote servers.

What is the MOST efficient method to run the script in background ?

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Random Background In PHP
Not sure if this can be done in PHP but I'm looking at giving users an option to choose a background image from a list ie when they click on a url it changes. If you click on the links to change of scene on the left hand column, you'll hopefully see what I mean.

Can this be done in PHP? I've tried googling it, searching on various forums but can't seem to find anything..

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Background Tasks
I'm using some weather rss feeds in a web site. The feeds are updated once every hour and cached in a local file. My problem is that every time the weather report is updating I get a long wait (not that long.. 2 or 3 secs) before the page is displayed.

This happens becauses the teplate engine that parses the page is waiting for the weather section to be parsed and cached. Is there a ay I can start the weather parsing as a background thread and return immediatly to the template engine to continue to parse the page? And if so How?

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Background Image
i created a calendar in php. i have this calendar displayed on another php page (index.php).

i added a background image to the calendar. it displays fine on the calendar alone but it won't display as a background image when i display it on index.php.

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Run PHP-Script In Background
I am using php 5.0.4 under IIS 6 under Windows Server 2003 and want to
run a php-script as a separate process. This schript dies not have any
output. I tried several variants without success:

exec("c/php5/php.exe path/to/script parameters &") will run the schript
but will wait until the schript finished processing.

exec("c/php5/php.exe path/to/script parameters > null &") gives me the
error message "The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time
for processing. The server has deleted the process."

Dealing with other variants of php cli procesors like php-win.exe gave
the same result. Also trying to use the start command did not help. My
head is burned out, what else could run my script under this
environment?

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Transparent Background
i'll try to explain myself the best i can, here is the problem:

i have a html page and inside this i want to put an iframe that contains a php page. That's ok, i can do it and it works, but the problem is that i can't make that php document to have transparent background.

it turns white. Is it because of the iframe? the php document has transparent background, but when i see it inside the iframe it doesn't work.

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Sleep() In The Background
how much the sleep() which is set to no limit can consume the system resource. Could it cause to hang the server? I tried the following and couldnot see the server got busy. Although the browser seemed to be so, if I access to a different page, it responded very quick as usual. It's not a big deal, is it? sleep.php PHP Code:

<?php
set_time_limit(0);
sleep(0);
?>

fork_sleep.php

PHP Code:

<?php
$str = "php -f sleep.php";
exec("$str > /dev/null &");
?>

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Set Background Color
I am designing with flash and am sending variables on the end of a url to a php document which also contains a swf - I want to tell the php file what color to make the background in the html section I have:-

<body bgcolor="<?php echo $bgcol">>

I've tried moving the quote marks around but nothing seems to work - I also use php in the title and that is working fine - is it because it is inside a tag or something or do I have the wrong syntax?

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Repeating My Background
i have a problem with repeating my background yet not haveing 2 images show. what is wrong in this code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
html {
background-image: #FFFFFF url(http://www.runnerselite.com/images/linedown.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position:0px 155px;}

body,td,th {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
body {
background-image: transparent url(http://www.runnerselite.com/images/line.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position:15px 0px;

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Execution In The Background
I want a php script to be executed in the background when the admin presses a button in an application which is running on a Linux environment. This page execution will take a long time(Maybe 16 hours).

There I want the window in which the administrator presses the button to display logs of the background executing script after this script has been started. How do you go about acheiving this?

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Background Process
I would like to create a script that acts like a background process. Basically once every hour, it will access a website, gather data from it, and write that data to a file on a remote server. The PHP code would be running on this same server. Is this type of non user activated, constantly running code possible?

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Table Background
I know this is a php forum but since i hang out here more than anywhere else i was hopping you guys could help me out. i just started this site today but i am trying to get this background picture in the table on the right to keep from repeating:

http://box1.no-ip.info/rpm

like i said i just started today so its nothing impressive at all. also the entire content will be driven by a cms engine im working on so what you see in that link is just hard coded for now.

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Background POST
how I can perform a background POST on a UNIX system using PHP. I don't know much about what a background POST actually is, so ANY information would be helpful. I'm trying to pass 5 variables to a particular URL and was told that a regular HTML Form POST wouldn't work, and that I had to use a background POST.

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$_POST In Background
if it's possible to send post variables using php w/o changing the page (no i dont mean post to the same page).

I have a site I want to post some variables to that returns xml which I parse and use in my script but i'm not sure if its possible to send the POST variables behind the scenes so it stays on my site.

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Task On A Background
I have a script that inputs/updates db from submitted form. I just added another code that sends email messages to a number of users that may be affected by the posted information. I put this script right before in run a db query and it's basically a loop that matches appropriate accounts and sends an email. Depending on how many accounts are affected it may take a little while before the pages returns back to the original one with the form. I was thinking that perhaps I could take the email script and put it into a separate page and trigger it at the same time.

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Alternating Background
<?php
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {

$name=mysql_result($result,$i,"name");
$type=mysql_result($result,$i,"type");
$creator=mysql_result($result,$i,"creator");
$added=mysql_result($result,$i,"added");
$description=mysql_result($result,$i,"description");
$id=mysql_result($result,$i,"id");

?>
<tr>
<td>2<? echo "$id"; ?></td>
<td><? echo "$name"; ?></td>
<td><? echo "$type"; ?></td>
<td><? echo "$creator"; ?></td>
<td><? echo "$added"; ?></td>
<td><? echo "$description"; ?></td>

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Starting Application In Background
On my main page I have several hyperlinks which point to a php page that plays different .wav files. In the play_sound.php page I just echo the .wav file and when the link is clicked in the calling page the browser (IE6) opens Winamp and plays the sound (since I output a header with Content-type: audio/wav).

It works great but is there any way to open the application in the background or at least minimized so you don't see it over the top of the main page?
Is it a setting in HTML that determines this or does it have to be done through php?

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Background Colour Not Showing
I need to use a coloured background for a page which contains tables. Using
Frontpage 2k I can create the background colour OK and it views correctly;
but when viewed using apache, there is no background colour, it is just
white.

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Display Graphic As Background
I've just realised that my previous post was very confusing in usage
of English. Therefore I am rephrasing it as following:

How do I display a graphic file (e.g. archit01.jpg) as a background
inside a HTML table.

The graphic file is listed in a MYSQL table called gfx and the
gfx_ID=archit01. hope it makes sense. :oops:

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Exec In Background On Windows
How can I get an /exec'ed/ process to run in the background on an XP box?

I have a monitor-like process which I am starting as
'exec("something.exe");' and, of course the exec function blocks until
something.exe terminates. Just what I /don't/ want. (Wouldn't an & be
nice here! Sigh)

I need something.exe to disconnect and run in the background while I
continue on with my script.

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Sending Pings In The Background
I set up my CMS to open a small window that called up a script that sent pings in the background. I had also set up a script that sniffed out if the browser was blocking pop up windows for my CMS and asked the user to remove the block, but now, since I've changed comps, it seems that my damn anti virus is blocking it and won't let me change the settings!

Is there any other way, maybe a temp cron, that I could run a script in the background and still allow the user to surf away?

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Running A PHP Script In The Background
I'm currently working on a PHP script which is run from the bash prompt to perform various tasks. How can I get it to load itself into the background? (i.e. so the program runs, and continues to run "invisibly", but after executing the program you are returned to the bash prompt).

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System Function To Run In Background
I have the following line of PHP code:

$ret_val = system("PHP myscript.php $param1 $param2 >> output.txt &");

Obviously the intention is to run a PHP file in the background
async'ly. This works 100% perfect on one server; running the script in
the background without errors. On another server the above line runs
the command immediately rather than in the background. Output is still
redirected OK and no errors are reported.

Does anyone know of a situation that might cause the above code wait
for the child process to finish before continuing? The file was copied
from one server to the other without any modifications. Furthor, both
servers are identical in software. One was literally imaged from the
other.

The only difference might be the file permissions. I created some
folders on both machines but I think on one of them I sudo'd to root to
create a folder and on the other I was logged in as a user (so CHOWN
might differ). In both cases though PHP has read/write access (no
errors were reported and identical script output is produced). The
permissions in question are those on the myscript.php and on the
output.txt file produced.

The PHP manual says nothing about file permissions affecting the
ability for a target script to run in the background. Any thoughts?
Should I be redirecting errout as well (e.g. 2>>errors.txt)? Maybe an
error is being reported on the second server and that is why PHP is
waiting? I can't see how PHP can know in advance that an error is going
to happen before it starts running the script in the background though.

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Background Text Image
How can I place text on a page like a watermark background. For
example, I may want to put FOR SALE in large red letters in the center
of a page at a 10% opacity then write text over it from the initial
point of origin. I've tried using style commands, but the results are
inconsistant.

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A Tool To Generate Background
I am looking for a tool (script, plugin, code, ...) which can generate
background image for webpage

look at background on http://vtorrent.info/ page or on the Vista
webpage.
I want to create this in fly - only give two colours and expect result
which will be created by function.

Is any plugin for it?
code in php or js or .. whatever ?

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Exec Background Process
I want have PHP call another process (another PHP script at the moment
but it may end up being a binary) in the background and not wait for
process to complete, but rather instantly jump the the next line of
code.

I've tried things like:

exec("./script.php &"); // script.php has executable permissions set
exec("at -f ./script.php now"); // and #!/usr/bin/php at the top of
the code

Neither seem to work. They both execute script.php, but both hang
around until script.php has completed.

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XP Exec Background Process
I was trying to exec a background process on XP using PHP CLI, but could
not get it to work. Suppose the command I want to spawn off is "cmd".
On *nix, it is as easy as putting ampersand "&" at the end of the command.

I tried the following on XP without working.

exec("cmd");
exec("cmd >NUL");
exec("cmd /c cmd");
exec("start /b cmd");

I tried many combination, but on each one, PHP waits for cmd to exit
before continuing.

Doing this in Windows script host (cscript) is simple:

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "cmd", 0, False

The "False" parameter causes the Run method to continue immediately
without waiting for the command to finish. So I could make my PHP file
exec a VBS file that does the actual background execution of my command.

PHP exec documentation says it will not wait if output of the command is
redirected somewhere, but this didn't seem to work for me. If anyone
has experience in doing something like this on Windows XP SP2,

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MySQL Query In Background
Sometimes in PHP I need to run a query, but the query will take a long time, and my PHP doesn't need any feedback from the query. How do I make it so that my PHP just tells MySQL to execute the query and then just goes on executing the rest of the script instead of waiting for the query to complete before moving on?

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Fork - Run A Script In The Background
What is the best way to fork without using pcntl_fork()?

I've tried something to the effect of:

exec('script.php arg > /dev/null &');
But it seems to do weird stuff instead of what I actually want to do.

Is there another way I can run a script in the background, without having to wait for it to return for the parent script to continue?

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Background Process/multithreading In PHP?
I use PHP for a user login application and it works fine. The problem is that another process should start up as soon as the user logs in and should keep on displaying different popup messages every 5 minutes. Is there a way I can implement this using PHP?
Basically the idea is to get a background process running, thats it.

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Change Background Colour
I want to display my query results using alternate background colours like the screen shot attached. Code:

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Changing Background Colors
i'd like my website background color to go through the whole entire color wheel. is there a way i can do this based on a 24 hour day with php?

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Running PHP Process In Background
Here's the deal, I work on a PHP based menu system for my company. The menu system allows users to run reports, change settings on our Linux box, etc.

My problem here is with the reports. Some of them can take 10-15 minutes to run. That's a long time to force the user to sit and watch a "Loading..." screen. What I'd like to do is somehow send the report process to the background. Code:

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Premade Gif That Set As The Background Of An Image
I have a few questions about GD in PHP. If I have a premade gif that I want to set as the background of an image Im making on the fly how would I do that?

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Executing A Script In The Background
I want the user to be able to click the button to execute a PHP script without the screen refreshing. What will happen is that the PHP script does some stuff to create a file, and then sends back a file to the user. How do I:

A: Allow the button to be clicked and the form fields to be sent to a PHP without the screen trying to refresh to a new page.

B: From that background script, get PHP to send a file from the server to the user, again without refreshing to a new page. Instead it would just bring up a file requester to allow the user to save the file.

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Invoke Command In BACKGROUND
I have a php program that calls an expect script. The problem I am having is that
my script takes an hour or so to complete. I do not know how to call it to run in the background like we do when we execute a unix command an use I tried commands such as system, exec and passthru. Here is what i am doing now

foreach($build_commands as $cmd){
system("./$cmd"); //cmd: "diag.exp parm1 parm2 parm3 &"
}

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Random Background Image
I'm designing a site that needs to do the following: Select randomly from a series of about 5 different background images Store the selected image name in a session variable I'm pretty sure that I can setup it's selecting randomly from images and storing it in a session variable. The thing I can't figure out is how I should execute it most efficiently. Will it work to do a php file include of the php file that has the code.

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