calling a wget to run in background?

[LRW]

In a PHP script I have the following two lines:

$thumbproc = escapeshellcmd( "wget -q -T 2000 http://(A
URL)/pa-thumbs/createthumbs.ph p?dir=".$order_ po." &");
exec("$thumbpro c 2>&1", $output);

Works perfectly...exc ept, it always waits until it finished with the
wget before it continues in the script.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem, except this wget is calling a
page that's doing some image manipulation that can take up to two
minutes to complete.

In the meantime I've added an echo at the top of the page saying
"please wait..." but there's got to be a way to have it send the wget
command in the background.

And I read the wget MAN, and that's what the -q and the & were for, I
thought.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

[Alex]

You're missing the PHP manual.

http://www.php.net/ look up program execution functions

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In a PHP script I have the following two lines:

$thumbproc = escapeshellcmd( "wget -q -T 2000 http://(A
URL)/pa-thumbs/createthumbs.ph p?dir=".$order_ po." &");
exec("$thumbpro c 2>&1", $output);

Works perfectly...exc ept, it always waits until it finished with the
wget before it continues in the script.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem, except this wget is calling a
page that's doing some image manipulation that can take up to two
minutes to complete.

In the meantime I've added an echo at the top of the page saying
"please wait..." but there's got to be a way to have it send the wget
command in the background.

And I read the wget MAN, and that's what the -q and the & were for, I
thought.

What am I missing?

Thanks!