Run PHP Task Asynchronously

Question

I work on a somewhat large web application, and the backend is mostly in PHP. There are several places in the code where I need to complete some task, but I don\'t want to m

Answer 1

PHP is a single-threaded language, so there is no official way to start an asynchronous process with it other than using exec or popen. There is a blog post about that here. Your idea for a queue in MySQL is a good idea as well.

Your specific requirement here is for sending an email to the user. I'm curious as to why you are trying to do that asynchronously since sending an email is a pretty trivial and quick task to perform. I suppose if you are sending tons of email and your ISP is blocking you on suspicion of spamming, that might be one reason to queue, but other than that I can't think of any reason to do it this way.