PHP: How to return information to a waiting script and continue processing

Question

Suppose there are two scripts Requester.php and Provider.php, and Requester requires processing from Provider and makes an http request to it (Provider.php?data=\"data\"). In th

Answer 1

I use this code for running a process in the background (works on Linux).

The process runs with its output redirected to a file.

That way, if I need to display status on the process, it's just a matter of writing a small amount of code to read and display the contents of the output file.

I like this approach because it means you can completely close the browser and easily come back later to check on the status.