Best way to manage long-running php script?

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Certainly it can be done with PHP, however you should NOT do this as a background task – the new process has to be dissocated from the process group where it is initiated.

Since people keep giving the same wrong answer to this FAQ, I’ve written a fuller answer here:

http://symcbean.blogspot.com/2010/02/php-and-long-running-processes.html

From the comments:

The short version is shell_exec('echo /usr/bin/php -q longThing.php | at now'); but the reasons “why”, are a bit long for inclusion here.

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