On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, YC Nyon wrote:
> In my PHP page, I need to run a external program to insert map data into
> Postgresql. However, the process is very slow (can be 10 mins). How do I
> return a webpage telling the user that the process is running and permits
> the user to browse the other parts of the web application.
>
> My idea is to run the "exec();" after the </html> tag. Would that be the
> way?
you should be able to do it like so:
exec('commandname args 2>1&');
You are running some flavor of unix, right?