Re: Running function in the background?

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On 10-01-2012 03:50, Michael Joel wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:32:43 -0500, John Drako
> <jbravo556@gmail.removethis.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a site where users can download files, and I want to enable the 
>> users to request files by email. Some of those files are big (not too 
>> big for email attachements).
>>
>> What I would like to have the user be able to do is to click on a file 
>> and have it emailed to him, but the user shouldn't have to wait for the 
>> emailing function to finish (tens of seconds some time) and continue 
>> browsing and clicking on other files to email or even leave the site 
>> confident that they'll receive the files in their email later.
>>
>> So I would like the emailing functionality to happen in the background 
>> and independent from the connection to the browser.
>>
>> Is this possible? Is it doable in PHP directly?
> 
> Just an idea - if it sounds dumb just ignore me :)
> 
> If nothing else works better. Instead of needing privileges do run
> system scrips - couldn't you create a cron job for a PHP script that
> sends emails to all records in a database?
> 
> When the user clicks the link it simply adds their email address and
> fiel to email to the database. When the cron job runs it sends out an
> email with the files linked with it.
> 
> just a quick thought
> Mike

i like this solution,
but i cannot find the 'i like'-button ;)

-- 
Luuk

Thread

Running function in the background? John Drako <jbravo556@gmail.removethis.com> - 2012-01-09 20:32 -0500
  Re: Running function in the background? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-09 20:43 -0500
  Re: Running function in the background? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-10 02:06 +0000
  Re: Running function in the background? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2012-01-09 21:50 -0500
    Re: Running function in the background? Luuk <Luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-01-10 11:50 +0100
    Re: Running function in the background? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-01-10 07:52 -0500
  Re: Running function in the background? Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-10 02:03 -0800
    Re: Running function in the background? John Drako <jbravo556@gmail.removethis.com> - 2012-01-11 08:40 -0500
  Re: Running function in the background? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-10 17:29 +0100
    Re: Running function in the background? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-10 17:39 +0100

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