continue processing php after sending http response

Question

My script is called by server. From server I\'ll receive ID_OF_MESSAGE and TEXT_OF_MESSAGE.

In my script I\'ll handle incoming text and ge

Answer 1

I asked this question to Rasmus Lerdorf in April 2012, citing these articles:

• https://www.zulius.com/how-to/close-browser-connection-continue-execution/
• close a connection early
• http://php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php

I suggested the development of a new PHP built-in function to notify the platform that no further output (on stdout?) will be generated (such a function might take care of closing the connection). Rasmus Lerdorf responded:

See Gearman. You really really don't want your frontend Web servers doing backend processing like this.

I can see his point, and support his opinion for some applications/ loading scenarios! However, under some other scenarios, the solutions from vcampitelli et al, are good ones.