php request url without waiting for response

Question

I'm trying to do a variation of file_get_content BUT without waiting for the content. Basically I'm requesting a another php script in different url that will download a large file, so I don't want to wait for the file to finish loading. Anyone has any idea?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I would suggest checking out either the popen function or the curl multi functions.

The simplest way would be to do:

$fh = popen("php /path/to/my/script.php");

// Do other stuff

// Wait for script to finish
while (fgets($fh) !== false) {}

// Close the file handle
pclose($fh);

If you don't want to wait for it to finish at all:

exec("php /path/to/my/script.php >> /dev/null &");

or

exec("wget http//www.example.com/myscript.php");