Processing in the background? [duplicate]

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I need to get some info from the user, send them som开发者_Go百科e text back and process the data in the background, so after sending the text connectionwith browser should be closed and then the data processed.

How to achieve that?

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You'll most likely want to save the information to a database and write some sort of daemon that processes the information offline. The PEAR System_Daemon would be a great starting point.

Some sections of their documentation you might be interested in:

1. What is Daemon
2. Daemons vs Cronjobs
3. Installation
4. Example

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You may get use of pcntl_fork. See the manual example.