Prevent a looping script from stopping when aborting the page?

I've built a looping script that i want to keep it running in the background.

The issue is that when i run it via the browser, it works fine but once i stop loading the page, the script stops/exists, i know that's pretty normal and makes sense, but how can i run a specific PHP script endlessly in the background?

It would be great if there is function 开发者_运维知识库in php that runs an other script but it goes on instead of waiting for it.

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You are probably looking for:

• shell_exec(..)
• exec(..)
• escapeshellcmd(../=)

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It is possible to run your script from command line as a process in background. Look here Run php script as daemon process or look at http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon that could help you to make it work :)

Web server kills your script because when user going on another site, server needs to spawn new PHP process for example and close older one.