Need to run a PHP “service” or script in the background? Send out emails, free memory, or monitor something? An easy alternative way to do all of those things is a PHP daemon directly executed on CMD/CLI.
Run in the command line –> php fileName.PHP
If you have issue running the php command, add php to your path on system environment variables.
If you want the script to run infinitely:
while (true) { /* DO SOMETHING */ sleep(1); }Wait 5s between cycles, here you can edit the time the script has to be executed if the script is enabled to run infinitely.
define("CYCLE_PAUSE", 5);Here is the basic use:
// include CMD/CLI script, if not included this wont work by CMD/CLI
require "cli.php";
// pause between cycles
define("CYCLE_PAUSE", 5);
// do something code
while (true) {
echo "PHP rules!" . PHP_EOL;
sleep(CYCLE_PAUSE);
}- Fork it!
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b your-branch - Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin your-branch - Submit a PR
