Run url in background in php

Question

In my application i have to send the sms to user while registration. But while inserting record in database i want to hit this url in browser.

Can any one suggest how to run this url at backgound

http://www.myurl.com/smpp/sendsms?username=XX&password=XX&to=XX&from=XX&text=Test

I second what @IrfanDANISH said :) – AKS Feb 05 '13 at 13:47 — AKS, Feb 05 '13 at 13:47

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:47

Well this depends on what you mean with background I'm asuming however that you mean that the user won't be redirected to that page.

If I were you I'd go with cURL if you have it installed, since the only thing you seem to want to do is make an ordinary request, and maybe, read the response. The code below is untested but should give you a hint.

$req = curl_init();
curl_setopt($req, CURLOPT_URL,"theaddress_and_params");
curl_exec($req);

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '17 at 07:07

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public function get_url($url)
{
    $cmd  = "curl --max-time 60 ";
    $cmd .= "'" . $url . "'";
    $cmd .= " > /dev/null 2>&1 &";
    exec($cmd, $output, $exit);
    return $exit == 0;
}

it will call curl via cli. it will run in background.

answered Feb 01 '17 at 07:07

MasterX

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what will be the value of $output and $exit – kishram Jun 20 '19 at 07:40

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 03 '13 at 00:08

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If you did that you would be exposing usernames and passwords in the URL (or headers). Have the user login in advance and use a session variable.

answered Oct 03 '13 at 00:08

PovertyBob

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:45

Don't send this from the client side since every user would easily be able to "fake" the data by just loading your URL with some (potentially malicious) parameters. "username" and "password" are not protected at all and I'm sure your service would be down very quickly.

Instead, you could easily do this in the background (server-side) with PHPs curl functions:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 29 '14 at 02:34

$url = 'http://yoursmsgateway.com/WebSMS/SMSAPI.jsp?username='.$smsuser.'&password='.$smspwd.'&sendername='.$smssender.'&mobileno='.$number.'&message='.urlencode($message);

echo $url;

   $mystring = get_data($url);

//echo "hi!";

echo $mystring;

function get_data($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

You can try this code, But you have to install cUrl DLL file. Process to install CURL is given below:--

1.)open php.ini file

2.)Find this dll file---> ;extension=php_curl.dll

3.)Remove ; (semicolon)

4.)such as---> extension=php_curl.dll

5.)Save it (Ctrl+s)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:40

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you could fork a child-process with the pcntl php extension.

(library that implements this: https://github.com/kriswallsmith/spork)

answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:40

gries

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yes, but he could create a php cli script, that he calls via. system or exec or something. – gries Feb 05 '13 at 13:42
Isn't that kind of like swatting a fly with a Cadillac? curl is so much simpler... – EmmyS Jun 07 '13 at 19:43

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

I think that there is no such concept as multithreading (which in essence is what you are asking for), as everything in a PHP code runs incrementally, but you can get to a solution. See this and this questions and their answers.

The reason that there is no multithreading in PHP is because everything is processed in the server, and you, as a client, already receive a finished response, so "running on background" in PHP is the same as "running sequentially".

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:41

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Make an AJAX call as the user hits the submit button. This would cause the script at that URL to run in the background while your current PHP inserts the record in the database.

answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:41

Antony

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:42

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Ajax? Load that url inside a div with ajax while you save the record calling another php file with ajax.

answered Feb 05 '13 at 13:42

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