Spawning a separate PHP process for a long task
<p>I have an AJAX script that takes about 10 minutes to do its thing. I would like to be able to tell the user 'Hey listen, the task is being completed, we'll let you know how it turns out', but it won't let the user run any other scripts on the server until that one completes (I believe this is a consequence of PHP being single threaded, but I'm not sure). Is there a way to assign that AJAX script to a separate PHP or Apache process, so that the user can continue to click around in the application without having to wait for the task to finish?</p>
