Start-Job PHP Script Not Working in Powershell? - php

Question

I have a PHP script that looks like:
if(file_exists("temp.txt")){
$myfile = fopen("temp.txt", "a") or die("Unable to open file!");
}
else{
$myfile = fopen("temp.txt", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
}
date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
$text = $date . PHP_EOL;
fwrite($myfile, $text);
fclose($myfile);
When I run the above script in Powershell using
php myscript.php
A text file is created and written into.
If I try to run the same file with
Start-Job ScriptBlock {php myscript.php}
I'll get a response like
But my text file is never written into. It seems like Start-Job never starts my PHP script.
How do I get Start-Job to start running PHP scripts?

Answer 1

Ok I'll write an answer about all of this:
From test (with your script as origin) I added some echo to get something in Receive-Job in powershell.
It was obvious the script was running as intended, but not in the expected directory.
So I added a getcwd() within an echo and this show me the working dir for the job (or scriptblock) is my documents directory) and I found the file there wihtin my home\documents.
Here the final script I eneded with:
echo "I'm running in ".getcwd()." !\n";
if(file_exists("temp.txt")){
$myfile = fopen("temp.txt", "a") or die("Unable to open file!");
}
else{
$myfile = fopen("temp.txt", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
}
echo "Ok, file was opened: \n".print_r(fstat($myfile),1)."\n";
date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
$text = $date . PHP_EOL;
$r=fwrite($myfile, $text);
echo "Write in file returned $r \n";
fclose($myfile);
echo "File closed\n";
And that is the output is with Powershell:
Start-Job -ScriptBlock { D:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\php.exe D:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\test.php }
Id Name State HasMoreData Location Command
-- ---- ----- ----------- -------- -------
51 Job51 Running True localhost D:\wamp\bin\php\php5....
And retrieving the output:
Receive-Job 51
I'm running in C:\Users\my_name\Documents !
Ok, file was opened:
Write in file returned 24
File closed
Hope it will help.