background-process

A small PHP library to run background processes.

Basic Usage

From example.php:

<?php

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use BackgroundProcess\Process;

$pid = (new Process())
    ->withCommand('php tests/test-task.php')
    ->run();

echo 'Started process with PID ' . $pid . PHP_EOL;

user@host:~/background-process$ php example.php
Started process with PID 2129
user@host:~/background-process$ ps
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
 1706 ttys001    0:00.03 -bash
 2129 ttys001    0:00.03 php tests/test-task.php
user@host:~/background-process$

Capturing stdout and stderr

$pid = (new Process())
    ->withCommand('php tests/test-task.php')
    ->withStdoutFile('/tmp/stdout.log')
    ->withStderrFile('/tmp/stderr.log')
    ->run();

Writing to stdin

$pid = (new Process())
    ->withCommand('php tests/test-task.php')
    ->withInput('hello world!')
    ->run();