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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