Comments on: Performing post-output script processing in PHP

By: Ash McConnell

Ash McConnell — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:51:41 +0000

This seems to work the first time I call it – or if i leave it for a while, but it takes a long time (the time of the sleep) if i call it a twice in a row.

Have I done something silly, or are you guys getting something similar?

Thanks for your help
All the best,
Ash

PS. I am using the Zend framework

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:35:37 +0000

Steven, Thanks. I wish that PHP had a better way of doing this, because I'm not 100% confident that this method works for all browsers. Another way that I've done it is to exec() a second PHP script in the background ie:

exec("/usr/bin/php /path/to/second/script.php SANITIZED     
         ARGUMENTS > /dev/null 2>&1 &");

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:16:05 +0000

I know why they always said you were a genius there at flying-j. This will help me in many things that I am doing.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:55:25 +0000

Also, I had reports of this rendering a blank page in at least one older browser (IE6 IIRC). That may be due to the mod_gzip as mentioned by Gabe.

By: Gabe Wachob

Gabe Wachob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:47:47 +0000

You may want to turn off gzip encoding if this is not working for some applications.

With apache 2.0, I did this in my .htaccess file:

BrowserMatch .* no-gzip

See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html for more info