Running function in the background?

From	John Drako <jbravo556@gmail.removethis.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Running function in the background?
Date	2012-01-09 20:32 -0500
Organization	AAL - Anonymous At Large
Message-ID	<jeg4fm02opn@news1.newsguy.com> (permalink)

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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?

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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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