Writing a daemon with PHP

PHP isn’t used to write daemons very often, and other languages (like Perl or C) might be more suited to your typical daemon. There are times when PHP is the right choice though, for instance if the rest of your project is a PHP website and you want to keep the same code language across the project. Everything here is available elsewhere online, but I couldn’t find a page that brought it all together neatly (fork, exec, waitpid, signal handling), so here it is. In this case, I wanted to be able to use the same DB connection file and…Read the Rest

Tags: daemon, exec, forking, pcntl_exec, pcntl_fork, pcntl_signal, PHP, waitpid, WNOHANG