I\'ve got a PHP script that needs to invoke a shell script but doesn\'t care at all about the output. The shell script makes a number of SOAP calls and is slow to complete,
In Linux, you can start a process in a new independent thread by appending an ampersand at the end of the command
mycommand -someparam somevalue &
In Windows, you can use the "start" DOS command
start mycommand -someparam somevalue