php background process in windows environment

Question

am using windows-7 OS and wamp server. i have 2 php files trigger.php,background.php. i want to run background.php in background .i have to call this file from trigger.php

Answer 1

i changed the function as below,

$cmd = 'C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5\php.exe C:\wamp\www\email3.php';

function execInBackground($cmd) { 
    if (substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows"){ 
        pclose(popen("start /B " . $cmd, "r"));  
    } 
    else { 
        exec($cmd . " > /dev/null &");   
    } 
}

and , its works for me. :)