I have a PHP script inside
c:users\xampp\htdocs\myapp\myphpscript.php
What I want is to make a windows service that runs this PHP script in the background.
So I searched for some questions here but they were not effective.
Is there anyone who can help me to make a windows service using nssm that executes for my script.
Create a batch file with following content and put it in windows startup ;)
start /b path-to-php-installation\php c:\users\xampp\htdocs\myapp\myphpscript.php
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I'm trying to open a Windows program from PHP using exec() on a local machine. Is it possible to start a system program (on Windows 10 if it's relevant) that runs in the foreground using PHPs exec function?
This line:
exec("C:/Windows/notepad.exe 2>&1");
Causes Microsoft's Notepad to open in the background (verified it is actually running using task manager) but I have no access to it, i.e., it doesn't open a window. How do I get it to run in the foreground so I can actually see it and interact with it?
So this seems like an utter ball ache to achieve using exec() for your average coder. There's another way to achieve this result: Have PHP generate .bat files using file_put_contents() with instructions to open a given file path and then auto-delete itself, like so:
#echo off
Start "" "C:\Path\To\File\SomeFile.txt"
del %0
This method requires some kind of task scheduler to monitor a given folder and execute the batch files as they come in. I believe PowerShell can do this, and possibly the Windows Task Scheduler. I think Linux has Cron.
I have an XML database that I want to manage independently from users on my website. Looking into the matter it appears that I should write a daemon script to manage my database. That is all fine and dandy but, I feel like I'm opening a can of worms. I wanted to write my daemon script in PHP, so I looked into PCNTL. But I quickly learned that PCNTL is not suited for web servers. So now I am stumped. How can I get a daemon to run on my server? Do I need to learn another language? I only want to write my own scripts. But I feel lost. I would prefer to write my daemon in PHP as I am familiar with the language.
I have been researching everything from PCNTL, CLI, SO questions, numerous articles on daemon processes... etc
I am running PHP 5.6.32 (cli), windows 7, on Apache. XAMPP 5.6.32. Unix system.
EDIT: I also have windows setup to run PHP from command prompt.
There's nothing wrong in running a PHP daemon, however it's not the fastest thing, especially before the 7.0 version. You can proceed in two ways:
Using Cron Jobs, if you're under Unix systems crontab will be fine, in this way you can specify the interval within the system automatically executes the specified script and then exit.
The true daemon, firstly you need to change the max_execution_time in PHP.ini to 0 (infinite), then in your daemon call for first function set_time_limit(0);, remember to run it only once. However if there is some failure like a thrown error uncatched the script will exit and you need to open it again manually, and don't try...catch in a while loop because it will probably go into an endless loop. Execute the script with php -f daemon.php.
So I've read many guides on how to run a PHP script from task manager, using the PHP.exe and the -f flag to give it a file.
However none of these seem to allow for me to use the include function (and also reading and editing other files) in my script. The script I'm trying to run includes multiple files from our site that other pages also use as well as this to-be automated script.
Any ideas as to how I can run the PHP file from Task Scheduler (Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ IIS 7.5) whilst having includes in the script?
I got the 140dev Twitter framework (which uses the Twitter phirehose) manually
running (via the webbrowser on my local wamp server), but I can't
figure out how to run both get_tweets.php and parse_tweets.php as a
background process like with SSH commands:
nohup php script.php > /dev/null &
Some of you started using (the Windows equivalent of) cronjobs, but
this isn't the right way to go. I think this is because of creating
multiple connection (or re-connections) to the Twitter streaming phirehose isn't allowed?
How can I run both PHP scripts (get_tweets.php and parse_tweets.php)
as a background process on my local WAMP server (and later on a VPS)?
Just to clearify:
I am using a WAMP server (first to test a little bit and later to
run it on a VPS)
Using LAMP or any *nix server/system isn't an option (due to time,
experience and lack of skills)
I have searched for solutions (on google and stackoverflow), but they are either not working or not clear enough for me (I am new to this)
Thank you in advance.
Find the php/bin folder where the php.exe is located. Copy the folder path and add it to your PATH environment variable (Follow this for instance to edit your PATH variable.
Once this is done, you'll be able to execute php in the command line from anywhere. Just start php script.php with a command line in the right folder and it should work. There might be some configuration to make so that the php in command line uses WAMP's php.ini.
I have 55 php files that I would like to run simultaneously from the command line. Right now, I am running them in multiple CLI windows using the code:
php Script1.php
I would like to be able to call one single php file that would execute all 55 php files simultaneously. I have been reading about how to make the command line not wait for the output, but I can't seem to make it work.
This thread:
How to run multiple PHP scripts from CLI
suggests putting an & at the end of the command to run the command in the background, but using the xampp CLI this doesn't seem to do anything.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Brian
By mentioning XAMPP, I assume you are on windows. I think what you need is the start command. You probably need start php Script1.php. For more info, do a
start /?|more
Linux
Apart from adding a &, you also need to redirect output to somewhere - otherwise your php process waits until the other process finished, because there could be more output:
exec('/path/to/program & > /dev/null 2>&1')
You could use the php forking mechanism. Read about it here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php